With the space and pace revolution in the modern NBA, more teams are empowering their big men to handle the ball, initiate offense, and shoot from deep. This 2025 draft class is absolutely loading with bigs who have a great variety of those skills, and today’s breakdown brings you one of the most accomplished, seasoned and modern bigs around.
As an international player from Paris, France, Maxime Raynaud (mak-ZEEM ray-NOH) didn’t arrive on a Division I campus in typical fashion. He played in the academy of French sports outfit Nanterre 92 (also called Espoirs Nanterre) at one point sharing the locker room with Victor Wembanyama.