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The Sports Junkies

Hour 4: Chase Hughes and Who's the Favorite?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

-Is AJ Dybantsa a slight favorite to be selected No. 1 overall by the Wizards? -Chase Hughes from Monumental Sports joins to discuss the Wizards' lottery win and potential picks -The Junks play 'Name That Bust' in hopes the Wizards don't pick one!

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0:00.0

Spish cake, CB and J.P.

0:01.7

Should mention coming up on B. Mitch and Finley today.

0:04.9

At 1 o'clock, John Wall's going to join. John Wall. Good luck, charm. Jay Doan. Look at that. Help bring number one pick to the whiz. Love it. Also been saying that Chase Hughes was joining us at 9. He's actually scheduled for 925. So my bad on promoting 9 o'clock. more Chase Hughes, Wizards Insider.

0:22.2

We can ask him how he thinks each of the guy So my bad on promoting 9 o'clock for Chase Hughes, Wizards Insider.

0:22.2

We can ask him how he thinks each of the guys would fit into the lineup.

0:26.8

I mean, we think they'd all fit great, but specifically somebody covers a team,

0:30.8

watches them every day, how Peterson would fit in, how DeBanza would fit in,

0:35.1

who he thinks the starting five would be.

1:12.8

E.B. and I were kind of kicking this round during the break, and he was like, well, what's the downside of basically announcing your favorite is a certain player? Or just say, yeah, we're probably going to take DeBanza. He's everyone's number one. It's just like a Wembe year. he had been over the top, like, when we went through the word association, he was like, oh my God, AJ DeBomsa, unbelievable. Well, it's just a game changer. You could just say game changer. Right. I think the only little downside that I could think of is if you're giving it away, right, and another team covets a certain player, and it's a different player,

1:12.9

then they're less likely to move up in the draft and offer you something crazy, right?

1:18.5

So let's say if you left it vague and...

1:22.0

You left it vague, but who's your one?

1:23.7

You left it vague, but who's your number one, though?

1:25.8

Let's say it's DeBanza, but they don't... but other teams don't know it's DeBanza, and they absolutely think Darren Peterson is the best player, and they want to trade up to Darren Peterson. Well, now you haven't shown your cards. You don't want to wait. You're like, I don't want to risk it. The Wizards might take our guy and then you end up offering something ridiculous.

1:45.3

And it's just, it's fruitless.

1:46.8

They're not going to tell us, obviously.

1:49.5

We know number two wants the Bonsa.

1:53.8

Yeah, seems like that's the assumption.

1:55.5

Yes.

1:56.4

So Danny Age is the one running the show.

1:58.2

All I say is Danny Aange can be somewhat unpredictable with drafts. Yeah. Well, I didn't see his response. Did he respond to that? I didn't see anything from Danny Age. I mean, Dawkins wouldn't even talk about the players when we talked about their strengths and weaknesses. He's not going to say, yeah, I like this guy over that guy. I understand. He's not going to do that. I understand.

2:23.3

I just think all these guys are power positions like this are secretive.

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