NumberFire · Jun 21, 2022
NBA Draft: Evaluating the Top Picks and Draft Position Props to Find Betting Value
The NBA Draft is entirely different than the NFL one.
Oftentimes in basketball, the very top prospects have been identified for a draft entering their one year of college, overseas, or in the NBA's G-League. Everyone knew LeBron James would end up phenomenal as an NBA player in high school, and one year at Ohio State wouldn't have changed that.
As a result, there's not really a ton of drama with most NBA Drafts. Instead of a wide net of players that could go at a multitude of positions of need, the top teams in the lottery are often choosing between a very small contingent of top prospects, and talent gaps between picks can be enormous.