The NBA draft is just a day away. Welcome back into the Ion College basketball podcast. I'm Matt Norlander.

If you're watching on YouTube, please be sure to engage with us. Shoot us some comments, some questions. Joining me on this special episode, we do this every year, a big mock episode.

We've got KB our lead NBA draft expert at CBS Sports dot com and Adam Finkelstein, the international executive director of all things scouting for 27247 sports. I don't know if that's the technical title, but he is here as well. We're going to get into a lot of first round discussion and some of our second round guys that we think are good sleepers.

Shots to Gary Paris of course. He's doing a few things on the home front, a personal matter. If you follow him on Twitter, you are aware of the update he provided. He is fine. No, no reason to worry on that end. But, but if you have not checked, please be sure to go out and check his feed. And he will be back on the show very soon and can explain stuff from his side of things. But he's doing relatively well. All things are well with him, but he is going through a personal matter. That's why he's missed a couple of shows. And since he's been here, he's been here.

A couple of shows and since he has publicly announced why that happened, I figured I at least wanted to address that. And we can get in that more on the next episode.

Love you, GP. Let's talk to NBA draft here. So on Tuesday night, Boone, Adam and I went on CBS Sports HQ and we did what I thought was going to be an hour long specials. Actually like an 85 minute special mock draft situation. So what we are going to do on this show as opposed to like me making a pick.

Boone making a pick, Adam making a pick, which is what we did on HQ. We are going to read off the mock draft we did on Tuesday and talk about these players and talk about whether we would agree if these players are going to go here because we're trying to predict team behavior, personal disagreements with all that. So with every single pick with every player, I'm going to announce where we had this player going.

And then the guys will tee up and give us and give us their opinions. This is going to be if you were looking for a cram session on the draft for Thursday. This is absolutely the episode for you. And we'll have some bonus goodies on the end with second round sleepers and all that good stuff here. So obviously San Antonio is at one. It's going to take Victor Wemba Njama.

We might as well spend one more heart moment talking about him here. This is this. There is no there is no doubt to this is an inevitability.

But we are at now Adam. We're at the the final stage here where he is not a member of an actual MBA franchise and from here on out. I guess the hype only increases. So on that front.

I guess it's only fair to at least ask you if we have if the collective evaluation MBA community, the media, everyone, right. Have we actually set the bar too high for Wemba Njama because it has it does feel like it has reached a level that in my lifetime. I do remember LeBron being at this level.

But I don't remember any NFL player being this hyped and there have been some big time hype number one picks. I don't remember anyone reaching that.

I don't want to ask if we're setting him up to fail because I don't know if that's necessarily the case. But are people that are hearing all this Wemba Mania stuff. Are they going to be potentially like a little like this wasn't what this guy was all about by the end of his rookie years second year. Or is there a real potential in your eyes that he could become.

Top 15 player in the league by the end of his second season. So it's all about the durability and you know what I'll say is this is that the only thing that is as big as his listed height and his wing span is the amount of hyperbole that the media has used leading up to to this draft. I mean we're calling him seven foot four when he stands next Rudy Gober. It's pretty clear he's bigger than seven foot four. So I'm going to go seven.

I'm going to go seven five reported eight foot wingspan but I would love to see the tape measure that measured that doing things offensively that we just haven't seen before like one foot one foot at three pointers.

His dominance in the defensive end of the floor is is just unmatched because he can move at that size too. But the word I like to use here I think it's the most accurate word is unprecedented.

He is an unprecedented prospect. We've never seen the overlap of side of the length defensive dominance offensive skill mobility and athleticism. We've also never seen someone this size period. So we don't know how he's going to hold up physically and that's the biggest question.

So I think I'm just going to continue to say unprecedented because best prospect we've ever seen. The first person I heard used that title was Mike Schmitz when he was still at ESPN. He's now the assistant GM and Portland Trailblazers.

I've been a mental matter respect for Mike Schmitz.

So yeah, I think when you can check all those boxes and it's totally unique best prospect of sure I'll go with that but not a sure thing. No prospect is a sure thing.

And I think that's the point that we've got to really get across here is that nobody is a sure thing. But best prospect in a decade like I'm not going to fight you on that.

Kyle, you have covered Wembee for dot com for well over a year. You are our resident Wembee expert. Put a bow on everything that is led up to this point and what your expectations are.

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