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The Sports Junkies

Is AJ Dybantsa the Leading Candidate For the No. 1 Pick?

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After further evaluation of Will Dawkins' word association, The Junks wonder if AJ Dybantsa might be the leader in the clubhouse right now to be the No, 1 pick?

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0:00.0

Spish cake, CB and JP should mention coming up on B Mitch and Finley today. At 1 o'clock,

0:05.5

John Wall is going to join. John Wall. Good luck charm. John Wall. Look at that. Help

0:10.4

bring number one pick to the whiz. Love it. Also been saying that Chase Hughes was joining us at

0:14.7

nine. He's actually scheduled for 925. So my bad on promoting 9 o'clock for Chase Hughes,

0:21.9

Wizards Insider.

0:26.5

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

0:30.6

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

0:36.7

watches them every day, how Peterson would fit in, how DeBonson would fit in, who he thinks the starting five would be. E.B. and I were kind of kicking this around 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 here. If he had been over the top, like, when we went through the word association, he was like, oh my God, AJ DeBontza, 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,

1:12.8

then they're less likely to move up. is if you're giving it away, right, and another team covets a certain player and it's a different player,

1:12.8

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

1:18.4

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

1:21.8

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

1:23.5

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

1:25.7

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.

1:44.9

And it's just, it's fruitless.

1:46.6

They're not going to tell us, obviously.

1:49.3

We know number two wants the Bonsa.

1:53.6

Yeah, seems like that's the assumption.

1:55.4

Yes.

1:56.3

So Danny Age is the one running the show.

1:58.0

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. I just think all these guys are power positions like this are secretive. They operate in the shadows or try to as much as they can. Well, Dan Quinn tried to do that too, and he gave it away. You know what? Word association can trip up the best of them. It can trip up the best of him. It tripped up Dan

2:34.3

Quinn. Yeah. You felt right in it. And I'm sorry, I maintain nobody would describe

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