LOTTERY MOCK DRAFT: Our first crack at the 2026 NBA Draft starts with Washington selecting AJ Dybantsa at No. 1
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander do their first mock draft for the 2026 NBA Draft! Who will the Wizards take at No. 1? Could Cam Boozer fall to No. 4? The guys will make picks for every team in the lottery and react to Sunday's draw.
(0:00) Intro
(1:30) Why did we do the lottery on Mother's Day Sunday afternoon?
(8:15) Is there a real debate to be had about the No. 1 overall pick?
(11:05) Lottery mock draft! Picks 1-14
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast where we sometimes we sometimes discuss Camel fighting Dodo Birds and Leaky Black. |
| 0:23.4 | Per usual, Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:25.9 | If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davies, |
| 0:28.4 | the only way you know how, the only way you should. |
| 0:31.1 | Smash that like button. |
| 0:32.2 | And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball podcast, |
| 0:35.6 | please go do that wherever you subscribe to podcasts like Apple and Spotify. |
| 0:40.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:41.7 | As the names suggest, this is a college basketball podcast, but most of the prospects who will be |
| 0:48.2 | selected in the 2006 NBA draft, they just spent five months playing college basketball. We know these dudes. You know |
| 0:56.6 | these dudes. So with the lottery order now set, we decided to mock the lottery picks for the |
| 1:03.1 | 2006 NBA draft. It's either this or we spent another 25 minutes on Mark Pope's Q&A. |
| 1:09.9 | I voted for this. |
| 1:11.5 | Norlander agreed. |
| 1:12.9 | Here we are. |
| 1:14.0 | Let's start with a couple of questions for you, Norlander. |
| 1:16.3 | For folks who don't really follow the NBA draft, do you have a sense for how strong this |
| 1:23.0 | class actually is that everybody tanked for? |
| 1:26.9 | And secondly, is there still a debate for the number one overall pick or are we done there? |
| 1:33.5 | I don't know if we're done there. |
| 1:35.0 | But you know what? |
| 1:35.4 | I'll save that one when we get to the number one overall pick. |
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