Tag: 2021 Big Board Comparison

6/30 update: Chad Ford just posted an update for his NBA Big Board site which has Scottie Barnes moving to #4, and McBride, Hyland and Trey Murphy moving into the 20’s. Check back next week as he will be posting 31-80 on his board, at which time I’ll update this post.

I’ve also included John Hollinger’s Top 20 board from his June 22nd article at The Athletic, which does not include three sleepers he mentions: Roko Prkacin, Herb Jones, and Neemias Queta.

June big boards are coming out as the deadline to declare for the NBA Draft passed on May 30. There’s been lots of movement since last month across the different boards, so lets compare boards by Chad Ford at NBA Big Board (updated with the 2nd half of his big board on 6/10), Jonathan Wasserman at Bleacher Report, and Sam Vecenie at The Athletic. 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.

	The Athletic (6/22)	NBA Big Board (7/1)	NBA Big Board (6/3)	B/R (5/27)	Athletic (6/3)
1	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham
2	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Jalen Green	Jalen Suggs
3	Scottie Barnes	Jalen Green	Jalen Green	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley
4	Alperen Sengun	Scottie Barnes	Jalen Suggs	Jalen Suggs	Jalen Green
5	Jalen Green	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga
6	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Scottie Barnes	Jalen Johnson	Scottie Barnes
7	Franz Wagner	Davion Mitchell	Davion Mitchell	Keon Johnson	Davion Mitchell
8	Jonathan Kuminga	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson	Scottie Barnes	Alperen Sengun
9	Jalen Johnson	Franz Wagner	Franz Wagner	Franz Wagner	James Bouknight
10	Josh Giddey	Josh Giddey	Josh Giddey	Josh Giddey	Josh Giddey
11	Jared Butler	James Bouknight	Jalen Johnson	Moses Moody	Moses Moody
12	Corey Kispert	Jalen Johnson	Alperen Sengun	Isaiah Jackson	Franz Wagner
13	James Bouknight	Alperen Sengun	Moses Moody	Alperen Sengun	Kai Jones
14	Moses Moody	Corey Kispert	Usman Garuba	Tre Mann	Chris Duarte
15	Usman Garuba	Moses Moody	Corey Kispert	James Bouknight	Corey Kispert
16	Davion Mitchell	Isaiah Jackson	Jared Butler	Aaron Henry	Ziaire Williams
17	Miles McBride	Ziaire Williams	Kai Jones	Davion Mitchell	Keon Johnson
18	Keon Johnson	Usman Garuba	James Bouknight	Miles McBride	Ayo Donunmu
19	Chris Duarte	Chris Duarte	Ziaire Williams	Jared Butler	Usman Garuba
20	Jaden Springer	Sharife Cooper	Sharife Cooper	Jaden Springer	Jalen Johnson
21		Miles McBride	Isaiah Jackson	Corey Kispert	Isaiah Jackson
22		Trey Murphy	Chris Duarte	Kai Jones	Jaden Springer
23		Kai Jones	Tre Mann	Usman Garuba	Sharife Cooper
24		Jared Butler	Cameron Thomas	Chris Duarte	Kessler Edwards
25		Josh Primo	Greg Brown	Day'Ron Sharpe	Roko Prkacin
26		Jaden Springer	Jaden Springer	Sharife Cooper	Trey Murphy
27		Isaiah Todd	Trey Murphy	Josh Christopher	Greg Brown
28		Josh Christopher	Johnny Juzang	Kessler Edwards	Cam Thomas
29		Tre Mann	Ayo Donunmu	Cameron Thomas	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
30		Nah'Shon Hyland	Rokas Jokubaitis	Roko Prkacin	Day'Ron Sharpe
31			Max Abmas	Ziaire Williams	Jared Butler
32			Chris Smith	Joel Ayayi	Miles McBride
33			Josh Christopher	Brandon Boston	Nah'Shon Hyland
34			Day'Ron Sharpe	Trey Murphy	Herbert Jones
35			Marcus Bagley	Rokas Jokubaitis	Tre Mann
36			Josh Primo	Charles Bassey	Josh Primo
37			Joel Ayayi	Terrence Shannon	Marcus Bagley
38			Matthew Mayer	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Rokas Jokubaitis
39			Brandon Boston	Greg Brown	Brandon Boston
40			Isaiah Todd	Herbert Jones	Josh Christopher
41			Raiquan Gray	Ayo Dosunmu	Austin Reaves
42			Neemias Queta	Santi Aldama	Santi Aldama
43			Nah'Shon Hyland	Nah'Shon Hyland	David Johnson
44			Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Isaiah Todd	Aaron Henry
45			Terrence Shannon	Josh Primo	Isaiah Todd
46			Roko Prkacin	JT Thor	Terrence Shannon
47			Aaron Henry	Isaiah Livers	Joel Ayayi
48			Vrenz Bleijenbergh	Austin Reaves	Matthew Hurt
49			Miles McBride	Julian Champagnie	Quentin Grimes
50			Charles Bassey	RaiQuan Gray	Marcus Garrett
51			Santi Aldama
52			Filip Petrusev
53			Herbert Jones
54			Juhann Begarin
55			David Johnson
56			Daishen Nix
57			Ariel Hukporti
58			Quentin Grimes
59			Gabriele Procida
60			Luka Garza

References:

The Athletic [John Hollinger]

Bleacher Report [Jonathan Wasserman]

NBA Big Board [Chad Ford]

The Athletic [Sam Vecenie]

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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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Post March Madness 2021 NBA Draft big boards keep coming from the top draft analysts. This will be the third update of this month’s comparison with the addition of the big board from SI’s Jeremy Woo, who just posted this morning (4/28). Our comparison also includes Chad Ford at NBA Big Board (updated 4/14 with his #31-60 players), Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz at ESPN/Draft Express, Jonathan Wasserman at B/R (now updated with his second big board update this month on 4/20), and Sam Vecenie at The Athletic.

	SI (4/28)	B/R (4/20)	ESPN (4/6)	Athletic (4/2)	B/R (4/5)	NBA Big Board (3/15)
1	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham
2	Evan Mobley	Jalen Green	Evan Mobley	Jalen Suggs	Jalen Suggs	Evan Mobley
3	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Jalen Green	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Jalen Suggs
4	Jalen Green	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Jalen Green	Jalen Green	Jalen Green
5	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga	Jonathan Kuminga
6	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson	Scottie Barnes	Keon Johnson	Davion Mitchell
7	James Bouknight	Jalen Johnson	Jalen Johnson	Moses Moody	Jalen Johnson	Franz Wagner
8	Jalen Johnson	Scottie Barnes	Franz Wagner	Kai Jones	Scottie Barnes	Keon Johnson
9	Scottie Barnes	Franz Wagner	Scottie Barnes	Corey Kispert	Josh Giddey	Scottie Barnes
10	Kai Jones	Moses Moody	Corey Kispert	Keon Johnson	Franz Wagner	Jalen Johnson
11	Josh Giddey	Kai Jones	Isaiah Jackson	Davion Mitchell	Davion Mitchell	Josh Giddey
12	Corey Kispert	Josh Giddey	Davion Mitchell	James Bouknight	Moses Moody	Kai Jones
13	Franz Wagner	Isaiah Jackson	Alperen Sengun	Jaden Springer	Alperen Sengun	Moses Moody
14	Moses Moody	Corey Kispert	Cameron Thomas	Ziaire Williams	Kai Jones	Corey Kispert
15	Usman Garuba	Usman Garuba	Kai Jones	Josh Giddey	Ziaire Williams	Sharife Cooper
16	Davion Mitchell	Tre Mann	Tre Mann	Chris Duarte	Sharife Cooper	Greg Brown
17	Alperen Sengun	Jaden Springer	Sharife Cooper	Tre Mann	Jaden Springer	Isaiah Jackson
18	Jared Butler	Davion Mitchell	James Bouknight	Franz Wagner	Tre Mann	James Bouknight
19	Tre Mann	Alperen Sengun	Josh Giddey	Isaiah Jackson	Corey Kispert	Jared Butler
20	Joel Ayayi	Josh Christopher	Usman Garuba	Jalen Johnson	Josh Christopher	Jaden Springer
21	Chris Duarte	Ziaire Williams	Moses Moody	Day'Ron Sharpe	Usman Garuba	Cameron Thomas
22	Ziaire Williams	James Bouknight	Ayo Dosunmu	Sharife Cooper	Isaiah Jackson	Chris Duarte
23	Jaden Springer	Jared Butler	Ziaire Williams	Ayo Dosunmu	James Bouknight	Ziaire Williams
24	Day'Ron Sharpe	Chris Duarte	Chris Duarte	Alperen Sengun	Jared Butler	Tre Mann
25	Roko Prkacin	Miles McBride	Charles Bassey	Rokas Jokubaitis	Chris Duarte	Johnny Juzang
26	Isaiah Jackson	Roko Prkacin	Jared Butler	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Cameron Thomas	Alperen Sengun
27	Cameron Thomas	Sharife Cooper	Marcus Bagley	Cameron Thomas	Aaron Henry	Marcus Bagley
28	Greg Brown	Aaron Henry	Jaden Springer	Aaron Henry	Marcus Bagley	Matthew Mayer
29	Marcus Bagley	Cameron Thomas	Greg Brown	Nah'Shon Hyland	Miles McBride	Usman Garuba
30	Sharife Cooper	Ayo Dosunmu	Max Abmas	Roko Prkacin	Greg Brown	Day'Ron Sharpe
31	Ayo Dosunmu	Brandon Boston	Aaron Henry	Jared Butler	Roko Prkacin	Joel Ayayi
32	Terrence Shannon Jr.	Joel Ayayi	Filip Petrusev	Brandon Boston	Brandon Boston	Ayo Donunmu
33	Brandon Boston	Trey Murphy	Terrence Shannon Jr.	Usman Garuba	Joel Ayayi	Josh Christopher
34	Daishen Nix	Marcus Bagley	Brandon Boston	Greg Brown	Isaiah Todd	Chris Smith
35	Miles McBride	Greg Brown	Miles McBride	Josh Christopher	Ayo Dosunmu	Brandon Boston
36	David Johnson	Isaiah Todd	Day'Ron Sharpe	Terrence Clarke	Day'Ron Sharpe	Terrence Shannon
37	Justin Champagnie	Day'Ron Sharpe	Josh Christopher	Trey Murphy	Terrence Shannon	Neemias Queta
38	Isaiah Todd	Terrence Shannon	Roko Prkacin	Marcus Bagley	Herbert Jones	Max Abmas
39	Josh Christopher	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Keyontae Johnson	Matthew Hurt	Charles Bassey	Raiquan Gray
40	Jose Alvarado	Kessler Edwards	Austin Reaves	Miles McBride	Kessler Edwards	Bennedict Mathurin
41	Ariel Hukporti	Rokas Jokubaitis	Roko Jokubaitis	Kessler Edwards	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
42	Aaron Henry	Santi Aldama	Trey Murphy	Terrence Shannon Jr.	Santi Aldama	David Johnson
43	Charles Bassey	Bennedict Mathurin	RaiQuan Gray	Bennedict Mathurin	Rokas Jokubaitis	Terrence Clarke
44	Filip Petrusev	Nah'Shon Hyland	Ariel Hukporti	Santi Aldama	Trey Murphy	Charles Bassey
45	Raiquan Gray	Charles Bassey	Juhann Begarin	Joel Ayayi	Austin Reaves	Herbert Jones
46	Johnny Juzang	Austin Reaves	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl	Joe Wieskamp	Nah'Shon Hyland	Miles McBride
47	Jaime Jaquez Jr.	Isaiah Livers	Isaiah Livers	Marcus Garrett	Isaiah Livers	Daishen Nix
48	Max Abmas	Herbert Jones	Matthew Hurt	Quentin Grimes	Johnny Juzang	Roko Prkacin
49	Ochai Agbaji	Ariel Hukporti	Kessler Edwards	David Johnson	David Duke	Isaiah Todd
50	Joshua Primo	David Duke	Isaiah Todd	Julian Champagnie	Max Abmas	Quentin Grimes
51	Juhann Begarin		Gabriele Procida	Isaiah Todd		Rokas Jokubaitis
52	Kessler Edwards		Allen Flanigan	Luke Garza		Filip Petrusev
53	EJ Liddell		Luka Garza	Moses Wright		Luka Garza
54	Isaiah Livers		Trendon Watford	David Duke		David Duke
55	Jeremiah Robinson-Earl		Quentin Grimes	Daishen Nix		Matthew Hurt
56	Luka Garza		Herbert Jones	Austin Reaves		Jabari Walker
57	Herbert Jones		Justin Champagnie	Herbert Jones		Jaime Jaquez Jr.
58	Sandro Mamukelashvili		Santi Aldama	Sandro Mamukelashvili		Juhann Begarin
59	Austin Reaves		Daishen Nix	Johnny Juzang		Ariel Hukporti
60	Matthew Mayer		Sandro Mamukelashvili	Isaiah Livers		Keyontae Johnson

References:

NBA Big Board [Chad Ford]

Sports Illustrated [Jeremy Woo]

Bleacher Report [Jonathan Wasserman] – 4/5

Bleacher Report [Jonathan Wasserman] – 4/20

ESPN/Draft Express [Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz]

The Athletic [Sam Vecenie]

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While many have released mock drafts this month, I wanted to keep a close eye on those who have only updated their big boards. Here’s a comparison of 2021 NBA Draft big boards from Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz at ESPN/Draft Express, Chad Ford at NBABigBoard.com, and Jeremy Woo at Sports Illustrated. Also, as of 3/18, I’ve added the newly published top 15 draft board from The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor.

	ESPN (3/15)	NBA Big Board (3/15)	Sports Illustrated (2/24)	The Ringer (3/18)
1	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham	Cade Cunningham
2	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley	Evan Mobley
3	Jalen Green	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Jalen Green
4	Jonathan Kuminga	Jalen Green	Jalen Suggs	Jalen Suggs
5	Jalen Suggs	Jonathan Kuminga	Jalen Green	Jonathan Kuminga
6	Keon Johnson	Keon Johnson	James Bouknight	Keon Johnson
7	Scottie Barnes	Scottie Barnes	Jalen Johnson	Corey Kispert
8	Jalen Johnson	Moses Moody	Scottie Barnes	Kai Jones
9	Moses Moody	Corey Kispert	Corey Kispert	Franz Wagner
10	Corey Kispert	James Bouknight	Keon Johnson	Moses Moody
11	Franz Wagner	Greg Brown	Franz Wagner	Scottie Barnes
12	Isaiah Jackson	Jalen Johnson	Moses Moody	Jalen Johnson
13	James Bouknight	Sharife Cooper	Ziaire Williams	James Bouknight
14	Alperen Sengun	Jaden Springer	Usman Garuba	Jaden Springer
15	Kai Jones	Kai Jones	Daishen Nix	Ayo Dosunmu
16	Sharife Cooper	Jared Butler	Greg Brown
17	Tre Mann	Davion Mitchell	Kai Jones
18	Cameron Thomas	Isaiah Jackson	Day'Ron Sharpe
19	Ayo Dosunmu	David Johnson	Marcus Bagley
20	Josh Giddey	Usman Garuba	Jared Butler
21	Usman Garuba	Brandon Boston	Jaden Springer
22	Greg Brown	Daishen Nix	Sharife Cooper
23	Ziaire Williams	Ziaire Williams	Alperen Sengun
24	Charles Bassey	Matthew Mayer	Justin Champagnie
25	Marcus Bagley	Josh Christopher	Brandon Boston
26	Davion Mitchell	Marcus Bagley	David Johnson
27	Jaden Springer	Day'Ron Sharpe	Terrence Shannon Jr.
28	Jared Butler	Josh Giddey	Joel Ayayi
29	Terrence Shannon Jr.	Isaiah Todd	Ariel Hukporti
30	Chris Duarte	Chris Duarte	Josh Christopher

References:

The Ringer [Kevin O’Connor]

ESPN/Draft Express [Jonathan Givony/Mike Schmitz]

NBABigBoard.com [Chad Ford]

Sports Illustrated [Jeremy Woo]

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