Public mock drafts rarely agree on much past the No. 1 pick. The 2026 NBA Draft is the exception. With the lottery set and the order locked, the post-lottery boards at ESPN (Jeremy Woo), CBS Sports, and Tankathon are nearly interchangeable through the top 10 — same players, same teams, with only minor swaps in the 7-to-8 range. Synthesizing those three sources produces a consensus top 10 that is as firm as any in recent memory.
1. Washington Wizards — AJ Dybantsa, BYU. All three boards put the nation's leading scorer first. Woo reports Washington has narrowed its board to Dybantsa and Peterson, so this is the one pick with a live alternative — but Dybantsa is the favorite across every public mock.
2. Utah Jazz — Darryn Peterson, Kansas. The former No. 1 recruit lands second on ESPN, CBS, and Tankathon alike, with reporting that Peterson would prefer to go first to Washington. Tankathon's mock flips the second and third names in some builds, but the consensus has Peterson here.
3. Memphis Grizzlies — Cameron Boozer, Duke. The Naismith Trophy winner and ACC Player of the Year going third is the clearest evidence that NBA boards weight projectable tools over college production — Boozer was college basketball's best player and is mocked behind two perimeter prospects.
4. Chicago Bulls — Caleb Wilson, North Carolina. The Second-Team All-American forward completes a consensus top four that has held across every public board for months. These four — Dybantsa, Peterson, Boozer, Wilson — are the spine of the draft.
5. LA Clippers (via Indiana) — Keaton Wagler, Illinois. The 6-foot-6 Big Ten Freshman of the Year and Jerry West Award winner is the consensus No. 5, the first guard off the board on ESPN and Tankathon. CBS is the outlier, slotting him No. 7 behind Acuff and Flemings.
6. Brooklyn Nets — Darius Acuff Jr., Arkansas. The 23.5-point-per-game scorer and SEC Tournament champion is mocked sixth on ESPN and inside the top six on Tankathon, kicking off the run on lead guards.
7-8. Mikel Brown Jr. (Louisville) and Kingston Flemings (Houston). This is the only real disagreement in the top 10. ESPN has Brown to Sacramento at No. 7 and Flemings to Atlanta (via New Orleans) at No. 8; other boards flip the two. Both are top-eight guards; the order is a coin flip.
9. Dallas Mavericks — Brayden Burries, Arizona. The First-Team All-Big 12 combo guard is a consensus top-10 name across ESPN, CBS, and Tankathon, valued for a safe two-way scoring profile.
10. Milwaukee Bucks — Nate Ament, Tennessee. The 6-foot-11 wing rounds out the consensus top 10 on ESPN. Tankathon and CBS keep him in the same lottery band, with some boards a few spots higher.
The pattern in the consensus is unmistakable: a four-man elite tier, then a flood of guards. After Dybantsa, Peterson, Boozer, and Wilson, the next six picks in the synthesized board are five guards (Wagler, Acuff, Brown, Flemings, Burries) and one wing (Ament). That is the structural story of the 2026 draft — a strong, perimeter-heavy class where the center position does not crack the top 10 on any major board, and the first traditional big (Michigan's Aday Mara) does not come off until the teens.
Where do the boards split? Almost nowhere through four, at No. 1 between Dybantsa and Peterson, at No. 5 on whether Wagler or a different guard goes first, and at No. 7-8 on the Brown-Flemings order. Beyond that, the consensus is tight enough that the value of a synthesized board is less about predicting the order and more about confirming the tiers. Tier one is four deep. Tier two is the guard run. Everything teams will argue about on June 23 happens inside those two buckets — and the single biggest swing remains whether Washington takes the scorer or the recruit at No. 1.