Jeremy Woo of ESPN.com highlights 10 NBA draft prospects to monitor over the next two classes.

While there’s no early consensus top overall pick in 2027, forward Tyran Stokes took that spot in the June mock drafts of both Woo and Sam Vecenie of The Athletic. The 18-year-old, who will play for Kansas in 2026/27, is one of five players for next year’s class that Woo mentions, with Slovenian guard Stefan Jokismovic (Baskonia) and power forward Cameron Williams (Duke) being two others.

According to Woo, there is an early consensus No. 1 overall pick for the 2028 draft: Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje, an American big man who will play for Duke over the next two seasons after spending three years with Barcelona in Spain. Listed at 7’2″ by the Blue Devils, Boumtje Boumtje — the son of former NBA big man Ruben Boumtje Boumtje — has a “unicorn profile” and recently dominated at the U-17 World Cup, Woo writes, leading Team USA to a gold medal.

Forward Nikola Kusturica, who helped Serbia win silver at that event and will similarly play the next two years at UCLA, and point guard Cayden Daughtry, who recently won Nike Peach Jam MVP, are two other players on Woo’s list for 2028.

Here’s more from around the basketball world:

• MVP runner-up Nikola Jokic (Serbia) and third-place finisher Victor Wembanyama (France) competed against each other on Thursday in an exhibition game with their respective national teams as they prepare for the August qualifying window for the 2027 World Cup. Jokic helped lead the Serbians to a three-point victory in Belgrade, per Nikola Miloradovic of Eurohoops, but he had extremely high praise for Wembanyama afterward. “He is a special opponent because he is unique as a player and as a person,” Jokic said. “I don’t see him as a rival, and I don’t take this personally. He has the opportunity to be the most unique basketball player we’ve ever seen – to be the best ever.”
• Toronto native Jamaal Magloire, who played 12 years in the NBA after being selected 19th overall in the 2020 draft, was inducted into the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame on Thursday, according to Sportsnet.ca. A 6’11” center, Magloire was named to his lone All-Star game back in 2003/04 with the New Orleans Hornets. The 48-year-old spent several years with the Raptors as an assistant coach after his playing career ended, and was on the staff when his hometown team won the championship in 2019.
• There was recently a six-team trade in the G League, the NBAGL noted (via Twitter). The most noteworthy name in the mega-deal is Mo Bamba, whose rights were acquired by the Stockton Kings — Bamba is currently on a partially guaranteed contract with the Jazz.