Two Pac-12 NBA draft prospects are projected to be top-five picks in 2024
Travis Branham of 247Sports did not waste any time after the end of the 2023 NBA draft. He sized up dozens of prospects and came up with a way-too-early 2024 NBA draft big board.
Cody Williams, the five-star recruit who will play for the Colorado Buffaloes this season, is at No. 5 overall. Is he the only Pac-12 player with a top-five projection one year before the 2024 draft?
Nope. USC’s Isaiah Collier, the Trojans’ best player and the No. 1-ranked recruit in college basketball, comes in at No. 4 on Branham’s big board. When was the last time you could say that two Pac-12 prospects were both in the top five of NBA draft projections? (Hint: It happened in the past decade, so the length of time is much smaller than you might have originally thought.)
There is a lot of Pac-12 talent on the NBA draft big board. It points to the possibility that this upcoming Pac-12 season could be really special, at USC and elsewhere.
