The 2024 NBA Draft lacked excitement from the very start of the cycle due to the absence of a consensus No. 1 overall player. The 2024 class wasn’t terrible, but it always felt more like a role player draft than one with future franchise cornerstones. The fact that this was the draft that immediately followed Victor Wembanyama’s class made it seem even more underwhelming.
As the NBA turns the page to next season, draft hype is set to hit overdrive once again. Cooper Flagg, an incoming freshman forward at Duke, is one of the strongest No. 1 overall picks to hit the league in my decade-plus covering the draft.
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