The NBA Draft begins on Tuesday, and ESPN college basketball broadcaster Jay Bilas has high hopes for it.Bilas, 62, called this year’s draft class the "best" and "deepest" he can remember."It's the best and deepest crop.When I say best, I mean deepest crop of super talented freshmen in one draft that I can remember.
And I think it is the best crop of star-caliber freshmen.Freshmen are going to dominate the first round," Bilas told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMESPN analyst Jay Bilas stands courtside before the game between the Illinois Fighting Illini and the Florida Atlantic Owls at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Dec.
5, 2023.(Porter Binks/Getty Images)Bilas noted that a lot of NBA teams tanked this season in order to get a premier selection in the draft."One of the reasons that you saw so many NBA teams jockeying for position to try to get into the lottery, which people call tanking, is because of the quality of this draft.
And you can be picking at six, seven, and eight and go, ‘Man, we're going to get a starter out of this?’" Bilas said.Bilas said the top of the draft has superstar potential.He listed BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, Duke’s Cameron Boozer and North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson as players who could be future All-Stars.The Washington Wizards hold the No.
1 overall pick, the Utah Jazz hold the No.2 pick, the Memphis Grizzlies have the No.
3 pick, and the Chicago Bulls have the No.4 overall pick.
Dybantsa has widely been mocked to be the No.1 overall pick in the NBA Draft.ZERO BS.
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DOWNLOAD NOW!BYU forward AJ Dybantsa dribbles the ball against Clemson during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in New York on Dec.9, 2025.
(Noah K.Murray/AP Photo)In his lone season at BYU, Dybantsa averaged 25.5 points, 6.8 assists and 3.7 rebounds in 35 games.
He was a consensus All-American and made the...