{"id":75220,"date":"2026-06-23T04:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/nba-draft-2026-predictions-a-consensus-at-no-1-and-a-rising-mexican-star\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T04:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:55:01","slug":"nba-draft-2026-predictions-a-consensus-at-no-1-and-a-rising-mexican-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/nba-draft-2026-predictions-a-consensus-at-no-1-and-a-rising-mexican-star\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA draft 2026 predictions: a consensus at No 1 and a rising Mexican star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AJ Dybantsa is widely expected to have his name called first on Tuesday. But which other young stars are worth keeping an eye on?<\/p>\n<p><strong>AJ Dybantsa<\/strong> looked like a pro among college kids in his lone season at BYU, becoming just the fifth Division I player in the last 40 years to average more than 25 points per game while shooting better than 51%. Even beyond the numbers, Dybantsa\u2019s natural length and ability to create his own shot make him look more like a future All-Star than Kansas\u2019s Darryn Peterson, whose load-management habits stand in stark contrast to Dybantsa\u2019s workhorse approach. <strong>Andrew Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/23\/nba-draft-2026-predictions-a-consensus-at-no-1-and-a-rising-mexican-star\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ Dybantsa is widely expected to have his name called first on Tuesday. But which other young stars are worth keeping an eye on? AJ Dybantsa looked like a pro among college kids in his lone season at BYU, becoming just the fifth Division I player in the last 40 years to average more than &#8230; <a title=\"NBA draft 2026 predictions: a consensus at No 1 and a rising Mexican star\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/nba-draft-2026-predictions-a-consensus-at-no-1-and-a-rising-mexican-star\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA draft 2026 predictions: a consensus at No 1 and a rising Mexican star\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}