2025 NBA Draft Big Board 3.0

We’re more than halfway through the season and the 2025 NBA Draft class is still looking very strong. There has been some talk that this heralded class has been a bit of a disappointment and maybe this class is not as strong as originally thought. My take is this:

It’s true that some prospects have been disappointments (or were over-hyped to begin with) but these disappointments have been more than offset by the emergence of some new stars. The rise of Jeremiah Fears, Thomas Sorber, Rasheer Fleming, Miles Byrd, Carter Bryant, Jase Richardson and others have helped keep this class as one of the strongest groups in a few years.

In recent weeks VJ Edgecombe has found his groove and is back to looking like a legit top 5 pick. And Tre Johnson continues to put up impressive scoring outbursts for the Longhorns.

The top 3 prospects are pretty much set in stone IMHO, with Cooper Flagg, Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper likely to come off the board first.

Flagg is a prospect worth tanking for and both Bailey and Harper have superstar potential. For more of my thoughts on this draft class see The State Of The 2025 NBA Draft.

One note about this big board is that it includes players that I project will stay in school for another year and so some of these prospects shows up on my 2026 mock draft.

Cooper Flagg – 6-9 – PF – Duke
Ace Bailey – 6-10 – SF – Rutgers
Dylan Harper – 6-5 – PG/SG – Rutgers
VJ Edgecombe – 6-5 – SG – Baylor (Bahamas)
Kasparas Jakucionis – 6-5 – PG – Illinois (Lithuania)
Tre Johnson – 6-5 – SG – Texas
Egor Demin – 6-9 – PG – BYU (Russia)
Liam McNeeley – 6-7 – SF – UConn
Asa Newell – 6-10 – PF – Georgia
Jeremiah Fears – 6-4 – PG – Oklahoma
Noa Essengue – 6-10 – PF – France
Khamam Maluach – 7-1 – C – Duke (South Sudan)
Hugo Gonzalez – 6-6 – SG – Spain
Thomas Sorber – 6-10 – C – Georgetown
Carter Bryant – 6-8 – SF – Arizona
Kon Knueppel – 6-6 – SF – Duke
Boogie Fland – 6-3 – PG – Arkansas
Ben Saraf – 6-6 – PG/SG – Ulm (Israel)
Johni Broome – 6-10 – C – Auburn
Will Riley – 6-8 – SG – Illinois
Rasheer Fleming – 6-9 – C – St. Joseph’s
Miles Byrd – 6-7 – SG – San Diego State
Nolan Traore – 6-4 – PG – France
Kam Jones – 6-4 – SG – Marquette
Derik Queen – 6-9 – PF/C – Maryland
Bogoljub Markovic – 6-10 – SF/PF – Serbia
Danny Wolf – 7-0 – C – Michigan
Alex Karaban – 6-8 – SF – UConn
Jase Richardson – 6-4 – PG/SG – Michigan State
Nique Clifford – 6-6 – SF – Colorado State
Collin Murray-Boyles – 6-7 – PF – South Carolina
Maxime Raynaud – 7-1 – C – Stanford (France)
JT Toppin – 6-9 – PF – Texas Tech
Donnie Freeman – 6-9 – PF – Syracuse
Joan Beringer – 6-10 – PF – France
Joson Sanon – 6-6 – SG – Arizona State
Ian Jackson – 6-5 – SG – North Carolina
Dink Pate – 6-7 – PG/SG – Mexico City Capitanes
Drake Powell – 6-7 – SF – North Carolina
Kanon Catchings – 6-8 – SF – BYU
Flory Bidunga – 6-10 – C – Kansas (Congo)
Mackenzie Mgbako – 6-8 – SF – Indiana
Labaron Philon – 6-3 – PG – Alabama
Noah Penda – 6-8 – PF – France
Javon Small – 6-3 – PG – West Virginia
Sergio de Larrea – 6-7 – SG – Spain
Ryan Kalkbrenner – 7-1 – C – Creighton
Johann Grünloh – 6-11 — PF – Germany
Michael Ruzic – 6-9 – PF – Croatia
Rocco Zikarsky – 7-1 – C – Australia
Eric Dixon – 6-8 – PF – Villanova
Isaiah Evans – 6-7 – SG/SF – Duke
Alex Toohey – 6-8 – SF – Australia
Dame Sarr – 6-6 – SG – Italy
Cedric Coward – 6-6- SG/SF – Washington State
Adou Thiero – 6-8 – SF – Arkansas
Tomislav Ivisic – 7-1 – C – Illinois (Croatia)
Malique Lewis – 6-8 – SF/PF – SE Melbourne, NBL (Trinidad and Tobago)
Moustapha Thiam – 7-1 – C – UCF (Dakar)
Darrion Williams – 6-6 – SF – Texas Tech
Hansen Yang – 7-1 – C – China
Jaxson Robinson – 6-7 – SF – Kentucky
Joseph Tugler – 6-7 – PF – Houston
Izan Almansa – 6-10 – PF – Perth (Spain)
Chaz Lanier – 6-4 – SG – Tennessee
Jaland Lowe – 6-3 – PG – Pittsburgh
Chad Baker-Mazara – 6-7 – SF – Auburn
D.J. Wagner – 6-3 – SG – Arkansas
Xaivian Lee – 6-3 – PG – Princeton (Canada)
Milon Momcilovic – 6-7 – SF – Iowa State

Thanks for reading. Here’s my latest 2025 Mock Draft