Hoops Tonight - Darryn Peterson or AJ Dybantsa: Who should be #1 pick in 2026 NBA Draft?
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jason does his first scouting report on the 2026 NBA Draft, specifically debating whether Darryn Peterson of Kansas or AJ Dybantsa of BYU should be the number one overall pick. He breaks down the strengths and weaknesses of each player and also compares them as prospects to potential NBA rookie of the year, Cooper Flagg of the Dallas Mavericks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume happy thursday everybody hope all of you |
| 0:23.6 | guys are having an incredible week as promised we're going to take our first look at the |
| 0:27.3 | two thousand twenty six NBA draft specifically at the top two guys darren peterson and a j |
| 0:33.6 | debonsa right now those are the two guys that are competing for that number one spot, a little bit of a drop-off before you get to Camboozer. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm going to primarily be focusing on those two guys. |
| 0:41.5 | I want to talk about which guy I would pick first and why I want to dive deep into both players |
| 0:46.8 | and what I expect from them as NBA players moving forward. |
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| 1:09.4 | We'll get to them on Fridays throughout the rest of the season. |
| 1:12.7 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 1:14.4 | So, Hard Rock Bet, our partner who provides all of our lines, has Darren Peterson as the current favorite to go number one. He's minus 300. And A.J. DeBonsa is right behind him at plus 375. That's a pretty substantial favor. |
| 1:28.4 | That's, that's, you know, that's Hard Rock Bet telling you they think that Darren's probably going to go number one. |
| 1:33.8 | Now, before we go any further as we start to talk about this particular debate, I don't think you can go wrong with either of these guys. |
| 1:42.7 | I don't think this is a case of like one of these guys is a star and one of these guys |
| 1:47.9 | is a bust. |
| 1:48.7 | I think barring injury, both of these guys have first team all NBA potential. |
| 1:54.1 | And I think both of them are more likely than not to make at least some version of an |
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