Arizona men’s basketball’s Carter Bryant has legitimate odds of being a top-10 selection in this year’s NBA Draft, according to big boards posted before the NBA Draft Lottery on Monday night.
John Hollinger’s list of the top 22 prospects for The Athletic has the 6-foot-8 Bryant at No. 8 in its third of six tiers. For better or worse, this tier happens to be named “Time to get weird.”
Among full-length big boards that feature all 60 picks, Bryant falls to No. 18 according to Yahoo! Sport’s Kevin O’Connor, No. 13 in the eyes of The Sporting News’s Gilbert McGregor and No. 15 per Rookie Scale’s consensus board.
Tankathon has Bryant at No. 22 on its big board and mocked to Brooklyn Nets at No. 26.
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The 19-year-old played one season for the Wildcats and is currently taking part in the NBA Draft Combine, which began yesterday and runs through Sunday. He and teammate Jaden Bradley were the two from Arizona to enter the draft during the early period. If either decides to forego the draft for college, they have until May 28 to pull out.
In his lone collegiate season, Bryant played in 37 games (five starts) and averaged 6.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and an assist.
He shot the three-ball well, at a 37.1% clip (39 of 105) and saw 19.2 minutes of action per game.
From the Big 12 Tournament on into Arizona’s run to the Sweet Sixteen, Bryant played at least 20 minutes in all six contests but never got hot offensively, with 12 points his largest output in a Round of 64 win over Akron.
What experts are saying about Carter Bryant ahead of 2025 NBA Draft
In Hollinger’s prospect rating on The Athletic, he praised Bryant for his steal and block efficiency, which are at 2.8 steals and 2.9 blocks per 100 possessions. On the negative end of things, Hollinger noted that his “shot-creation tools are still pretty rudimentary.”
One thing that may make teams skittish about grabbing Bryant this high is that he has a limited handle that may consign him to a low-usage, 3-and-D role. While Bryant can get more buckets off cuts, transitions and general energy at the pro level than he did at Arizona, his shot-creation tools are still pretty rudimentary.
O’Connor of Yahoo! Sports had similar sentiment for Bryant’s offensive game, labeling his shot as “raw.” He described Bryant as a “highly versatile defender” who is a jump shot away from earning high-leverage minutes in games.
Arizona’s Caleb Love still a fringe NBA Draft candidate
Caleb Love, who exhausted college eligibility last season, participated in the G League Elite Camp this past weekend in Chicago after not receiving an invitation to the NBA Draft Combine.
Love was the 76th-rated prospect on ESPN’s big board created on April 24.
In two G League scrimmages, he averaged 11.5 points but shot very poorly from three-point country (1 for 10) in his 21 minutes per game. Love was active defensively on Sunday with four steals and had a pair of turnovers in each contest.
Outside of the on-court showcasing, Love ran through several combine-like drills alongside 44 other players.
In what’s known as the pro lane drill, which tests speed and agility, Love recorded the fastest time of 10.6 seconds ahead of Missouri guard Tamar Bates. He also had a 35.0-inch vertical leap, good enough for seventh place and 1.5 inches better than his performance last year, when he was testing the waters of the NBA Draft.
Last season, Love was named First Team All-Big 12 and became the 13th player to score at least 1,000 points at two schools, having spent his first three seasons at North Carolina.
2025 NBA Draft Lottery
The NBA Draft Lottery will be broadcasted from Chicago at 4 p.m. MST Monday on ESPN.
The Utah Jazz and Washington Wizards each have the best odds (14.0%) of grabbing the coveted No. 1 overall pick and winning the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes.
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