Welcome to the Saturday Slammajam here on the Athletic NBA Daily.

On today's show, we're talking to Sam Vassini about the NBA draft,

and then we will do some NBA draft trivia with me.

As always, this is my good friend, Alex Spears.

Alex, what's up?

Hey, Andrew.

Hey, how?

Things are going great here, guys.

So good.

So good.

We got Sam Bacini here to talk about the NBA draft.

Your draft guide dropped this week.

So early, Sam. Beautiful. Record time. Yeah. I wanted to get it out earlier this year. That was the

goal. I'm really excited to have, you know, I finished it in the month of May for the first time,

like all of the writing for the first time in history. Yeah. And then, you know, I finished it in the month of May for the first time, like all of the writing for the

first time in history. Yeah. And then, you know, everyone did a great job on the back end at the

athletics. So I'm eternally grateful to all of the teammates that we get to work with here.

It's awesome. If you haven't, if you haven't read it or started to read it, you should go do that today. It's very good.

You mentioned in your introduction that beyond Flag and Harper, you're a bit lower on this

class of prospects compared to consensus. As a point of comparison, last year was widely considered

one of the weaker draft classes. Where would some of your top prospects from last year's widely considered one of the weaker draft classes.

Where would some of your top prospects from last year's class rank in this current draft?

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