[NBA Draft]: 2021 Big Board Comparison, May

With this week’s 2021 NBA Draft Guide update by Kevin O’Connor at The Ringer, lets take a look at how his Top 30 board compares to recent updates from Jeremy Woo at Sports Illustrated and Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz at ESPN/Draft Express (who don’t post an update date on their best players available page, as I’m sure many of you have noticed). Alperen Sengun has been moving up the boards as analysts have dug into the more tape. O’Connor has him at #9, similar to John Hollinger from The Athletic who has him at #7, according to his recent visit with Chad Ford on this week’s NBA Big Board pod. As more big boards are updated, I’ll be adding them to this page, so make sure to check back for updates throughout the month.

	Ringer (5/6)	ESPN (5/?)	SI (4/28)
1	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham
2	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Jalen Suggs
3	Jalen Suggs	Jalen Suggs	Evan Mobley
4	Jalen Green	Jalen Green	Jalen Green
5	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga
6	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson
7	Davion Mitchell	Jalen Johnson	James Bouknight
8	Franz Wagner	Davion Mitchell	Jalen Johnson
9	Alperen Sengun	Franz Wagner	Scottie Barnes
10	Kai Jones	Scottie Barnes	Kai Jones
11	Scottie Barnes	Isaiah Jackson	Josh Giddey
12	Jalen Johnson	Corey Kispert	Corey Kispert
13	Corey Kispert	Josh Giddey	Franz Wagner
14	Josh Giddey	Alperen Sengun	Moses Moody
15	Tre Mann	Usman Garuba	Usman Garuba
16	Moses Moody	Cameron Thomas	Davion Mitchell
17	Ziaire Williams	Kai Jones	Alperen Sengun
18	Cameron Thomas	Tre Mann	Jared Butler
19	Sharife Cooper	Sharife Cooper	Tre Mann
20	Chris Duarte	James Bouknight	Joel Ayayi
21	James Bouknight	Moses Moody	Chris Duarte
22	Jaden Springer	Ayo Dosunmu	Ziaire Williams
23	Jared Butler	Jared Butler	Jaden Springer
24	Isaiah Jackson	Ziaire Williams	Day'Ron Sharpe
25	Ayo Dosunmu	Chris Duarte	Roko Prkacin
26	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Charles Bassey	Isaiah Jackson
27	Usman Garuba	Marcus Bagley	Cameron Thomas
28	Greg Brown	Jaden Springer	Greg Brown
29	Day'Ron Sharpe	Greg Brown	Marcus Bagley
30	Rokas Jokubaitis	Max Abmas	Sharife Cooper

References:

The Ringer [Kevin O’Connor]

Sports Illustrated [Jeremy Woo]

ESPN/Draft Express [Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz]

The Athletic [John Hollinger] – international scouting article with great intel on Sengun, Garuba, Giddey and others

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