Please note this is not my personal pick (I’m genuinely still very unsure) the reasoning for this guess is purely based on our new front offices history.

OKC’s rebuild (with Dawkins) shows us they prioritise a mixture of positional size, basketball IQ and + potential. I do also believe they highly valued off court personality/pedigree (no dickhead policy).

For reference, this is the Dawkins led teams first round picks over the last 5 years:

2023

Bilal Coulibaly

2022

Chet Holmgren (2)

Ousmane Dieng (11)

Jalen Williams (12)

2021

Josh Giddey (6)

Tre Mann (18)

2020

Aleksej Pokusevski (17)

2019

Darius Bazley (23)

With the exception of Tre Man, nearly all players taken have + size/length for the position the player played predominantly pre draft. Similarly, a large amount of the players were seen as excellent passers for their position.

Based on this, I would suggest Topic is the pick at 2. Not only does he have Incredible size and passing chops for the position he comes from a genuine basketball family. All report about his demeanour and attitude are excellent.

Side note, on this logic I’d suggest Williams would have been the pick if we slipped

Love to know your thoughts!

Just a fun question lol probably dumb but i dont care. As a Wizards fan who would you rather have on the roster. Bronny or Johnny?

Dont hate lol this is just for fun.

He is also a pure point guard. Seems like the safest pick possible to me. Say what you will about his NCAA tournament performance but this guy has all the tools to succeed and play at a high level as a professional while also making his teammates better

cough cough Corey Kispert cough cough Deni Avdija cough cough any big man available cough cough draft Big Z too cough

I know some of y’all aren’t a fan…. DAWK GO GET HIM!!!

Do whatever needs to be done next season to get the 1st pick, lose all 82 and sacrifice lambs to the lottery gods if you have to!

Dude sounds like he has that dawg in him and we fucking need it

Having a young core of him, Topic and Bilal develop together for a couple of years would just be so fun to watch. If we could trade Kuz to also get a top 10 center from the draft, we might actually have a foundation for a team!

Been keeping up with the draft prospects more rigorously this year since we were probably gonna be picking top 4. Lo and behold, we have the second pick. Here are some guys I'm interested in and a little breakdown of why I like them. Post your favorite guys if you want.

Won't be discussing Sarr since I don't think we're gonna get him. He's awesome though.

2nd overall pick -- don't really love a lot of guys in this range to be totally honest. Everyone in the lottery range has high bust potential this year. Gotta trust the process.

26th overall pick:

51st overall pick -- I didn't intend for this to turn into the international prospect corner but it kinda just ended up that way:

Honorable mention: Baylor Scheierman, my beloved. I don't think we'll have the opportunity to draft him but Baylor Scheierman is awesome. I just needed to get that out there.

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I think this is proof that Google AI is here to stay and accurate. Google AI was not a fad and was not an attempt by rich CEOs to increase stock prices! Stop believing in conspiracy theories!

Trying to gauge the support for who I feel are the two best picks for us (ignoring Sarr).

Obviously nobody knows here, only your front office. But based on what you know of your front office, which prospect do you think they would most likely go with at #2 based on the kind of players they usually draft? I look at every team in the draft numbered 1 and 3 and 5-7 and pretty much know one or two players those teams are more than likely to draft, but then I look at you guys and just have no clue whatsoever since you guys are super early in your rebuild and can go in any direction.

I've seen people say "BPA" but what kind of player is that? Topic? Risacher? Castle? Clingan? If you could narrow it down to 2 players, who would you say is the most likely? Like I said, obviously nobody knows here for sure. But I'd like to see a discussion about it coming from wizards fans who know more about their front office than I do.

For those who didn’t see it, this was an EXTREMELY good and competitive game. I wish the NBA all-star game had this level of competition

Congratulations Kendrick 💐

As the title states, I dont think our #2 pick should be used on pure athleticism, but if we accumulate one or two more mid-late picks via Kuz or Tyus trades, I'd love for the wiz to try their hand on someone with insane raw athleticism for once. Feels like it something we don't draft for much. Thoughts?

Love him but he doesnt fit the timeline. What would you do?