2027 NBA Draft Board

The top-ranked recruit in the 2026 class at Kansas, a 6-foot-7 wing who has sat atop recruiting and draft prospect lists since early in high school, with three FIBA gold medals for the United States, the third at the 2025 under-19 World Cup. He enters college as a favorite for national freshman of the year.

A Slovenian guard who moved to Spain at 14 to join Baskonia’s academy and made his EuroLeague debut for the senior team at 16 in 2025-26. He won MVP at the adidas Eurocamp and led Slovenia to gold at the Under-18 European Championship, averaging 23.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists there. A jumbo playmaking guard who already runs pick-and-roll offense at a professional level, drawing comparisons to Luka Doncic on the strength of size and vision alone.

The No. 2 recruit in the 2026 class, a consensus national player of the year out of Paul VI Catholic in Virginia with a 6-foot-8.5 wingspan on a 6-foot-2 frame. He defends multiple positions and rebounds the ball at a guard’s rare rate, and he attacks the rim with more force than most players his size. His outside shot is the one question left for a player who has answered nearly every other one already.

Seventeen-point-one points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists across 34 games, a consensus All-American and an All-SEC pick on a Florida team that won the 2025 national title. He sat 13th on the 2026 draft’s top 100 before deciding to come back for a final college season.

The No. 4 recruit in the 2026 class, a 6-foot-11 forward from Phoenix with a 7-foot-1.5 wingspan who averaged 15.4 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.6 blocks on the Adidas 3SSB circuit while making 37 percent of his threes. He guards one through five and runs the floor in a way scouts have compared to Evan Mobley. The combination of size, shooting range and switchability is what separates him from every other big man in the class.

Nineteen-and-a-half points, 5.1 assists and 2.4 steals a game, first-team All-SEC and on the conference’s all-defensive team in the same season. Six feet tall, and the production has outrun the listed size at every level he has played.

Was the No. 1 recruit in the 2027 class before reclassifying to 2026 in August and enrolling at Maryland a year early, the same move Cooper Flagg made two cycles earlier. Born December 15, 2008, he will not turn 18 until partway through his college season. A three-level scorer who converts inside the arc at a 52 percent clip on Synergy’s tracking, with a 7-foot-1 wingspan that gives him real defensive versatility for his size.

Ranked as high as fourth in the 2026 class and called its best scoring guard, out of Inglewood, California, where he broke the state’s all-time high school scoring record with 4,718 career points. He led the Nike EYBL in scoring at 23.6 points a game over the spring and summer circuit. A left-handed scorer who thrives in transition, with a jumper that holds up off the dribble and in catch-and-shoot situations alike, and passing vision that shows up off his own dribble penetration.

Seventeen-point-eight points, 5.9 rebounds and two steals a game as a Baylor freshman on 46.5 percent shooting, then a transfer to St. John’s. The scoring arrived early; the 29.3 percent from three is the number that has to move.

A top-five recruit in the 2026 class and the class’s top-ranked shooting guard, out of Prolific Prep in Florida by way of Georgia. A two-way guard who uses his strength to switch across positions and rebound the ball on the perimeter, with a jump shot that holds up from midrange and beyond the arc and a downhill first step that gets him to the rim against bigger defenders.

Four seasons inside Barcelona’s system and a Liga ACB debut for the senior team before crossing to North Carolina. Finishing, passing, offensive rebounding and shot-blocking are the four things scouts name on him, and he is projected into the 2027 lottery.

Sixteen-point-two points, four rebounds and 2.6 assists on 51.5 percent shooting as Notre Dame’s second-leading scorer and an All-ACC honorable mention, then a transfer to Tennessee with three years of eligibility still in hand.

A Finnish forward who spent last season with Partizan in Belgrade rather than in high school, then enrolled at Arkansas, where he is one of four five-star freshmen on the same roster.

Fifteen-point-one points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.4 blocks across 34 starts as a junior, then a decision to skip the 2026 draft and finish at Florida. The 3.6 assists are the rarest number on that line for a player his size.

Eleven-point-four points, a team-leading 6.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists as a freshman, starting 24 of 32 games and making the SEC’s all-freshman team. He went to the 2026 combine projected between 20th and 27th, said he would come back if he was not a first-rounder, and did.

Tested the 2026 draft and measured 6-foot-11 and a quarter without shoes, 242 pounds, with a 7-foot-1.5 wingspan at the NBA Combine, then withdrew and returned to Kentucky. His freshman line was modest, 7.8 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.5 blocks a game on 58.2 percent shooting, production his size and defensive tools have room to outgrow in a full sophomore season.

A French wing already playing professionally for Nanterre 92 in France’s top league. He averaged 15.4 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists at the Under-17 World Cup, an athletic, physically ready wing who reads passing lanes and contests shots with clean technique against grown professionals already.

Averaged 12.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.4 assists as a freshman on 42.1 percent shooting and 33.5 percent from three, then turned down the 2026 draft to return to UConn. A movement shooter first, taking 6.5 threes a game as a freshman, with scouts crediting a scrimmage-tested handle and secondary playmaking beyond the shooting alone.

The sixth-ranked recruit in the 2026 class after reclassifying out of 2027, where he had been ranked first. A long wing out of Prolific Prep, by way of consecutive Arizona state championships at Perry High School.

The No. 8 prospect in the 2026 class and the top recruit in Ohio, a left-handed scorer whose release sits high enough that defenders cannot reach it, which is what lets him shoot with almost no separation.

A McDonald’s All-American out of St. John Bosco, ranked inside the top ten of the 2026 class and second in California behind Crowe. Six-foot-nine with the movement to defend across positions.

Averaged 10.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and a team-leading 1.1 blocks a game as a sophomore, shooting 60.6 percent from the field and earning All-ACC honorable mention, after foot surgery had cost him his senior year of high school and the first four games of his freshman season. Enters his junior season as Duke’s returning frontcourt anchor, a two-way center whose efficiency numbers already play at an NBA level even with modest scoring volume.

Reclassified out of the 2027 class in May and committed to Louisville the same week, over Arkansas, BYU, Kentucky and Maryland. His father of the same name played at Maryland and in the NBA.

A 7-foot-2, 260-pound center entering his fourth and final season with Arizona, one of a handful of four-year college players on a board built mostly around teenagers. Another season at his current level of rim protection and rebounding would put him in the first-round conversation on size and defensive polish alone, the case a four-year college center rarely gets to make against one-and-done freshmen.

A five-star forward out of Southeastern Prep in Florida, ranked as high as 14th nationally in the 2026 class, and Missouri’s second five-star signing of the cycle alongside Crowe.

Nine-point-nine points and 2.8 rebounds on 39.1 percent from three as a freshman, on the Big Ten’s all-freshman team and a national champion in the same season.

The son of former NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, he missed USC’s first 18 games as a freshman recovering from injury before debuting on January 21 and averaging 14.1 points, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists over his final 14 games, finishing in double figures eight times. He tested the 2026 draft before withdrawing to return for a full sophomore season, his first as a full-time starter from opening night.

A McDonald’s All-American out of Los Angeles who averaged 5.7 points and 3.3 rebounds across 38 games as a Duke freshman on 44.4 percent shooting and 34 percent from three, then raised that to 10.7 points a game over three ACC Tournament games as his minutes grew. He transferred to UConn for his sophomore season, joining Mullins on a roster carrying two 2027 prospects.

Nine-and-a-half points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.6 blocks a game at Archbishop Stepinac, the third-ranked center in the 2026 class. He and his twin signed with USC together; their father, Theo Ratliff, played 16 NBA seasons.

The other Ratliff, a three-level scorer who shoots from range at a size that usually rules it out, ranked 52nd in the 2026 class to his brother’s 43rd.