Draft Notes: Flemings, Anderson, Pelicans, Guide
The 2026 NBA Draft is fast approaching, and with it come a variety of different ranking questions. Some teams are still torn on their rankings for the top three prospects. Meanwhile, with a lottery loaded with guards, there is bound to be debate about who goes where.
One such player who may be looking to help teams make a decision is Kingston Flemings, the hard-nosed point guard out of Houston. Flemings has only worked out for three teams: the Clippers, Bulls, and Mavericks, Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman notes in a recent mock draft.
The Bulls and Clippers have picks No. 4 and 5, respectively, while the Mavs are lower in the lottery at No. 9, but would bring the added benefit of playing alongside a true franchise cornerstone in Cooper Flagg. While undersized, Flemings is a talented scorer who showed good off-ball ability playing in Houston’s talented program this season.
We have more notes from around the draft:
- Texas Tech point guard Christian Anderson is another prospect looking to separate himself from the other guards, despite generally being ranked slightly lower than the top guard group. He has worked out for multiple teams with top-10 picks so far this summer, Yahoo’s Kevin O’Connor reports in his own mock draft. Anderson is one of the better playmakers out of the pick-and-roll in the class and has a case for being the best shooter in the draft.
- The Pelicans held a pre-draft workout on Tuesday featuring Maliq Brown (Duke), Malik Dia (Ole Miss), Xaivian Lee (Florida), JJ Starling (Syracuse), and Peter Suder (Miami, Ohio), Will Guillory reports for The Athletic (Twitter link). Of the six prospects, Brown is the highest ranked, coming in at 54 on Jeremy Woo’s big board for ESPN. The Pelicans hold pick No. 58 in the draft.
- Sam Vecenie of The Athletic released his 2026 Draft guide on Tuesday, featuring rankings of his top 100 prospects as well as 60 in-depth player breakdowns. In it, he writes that AJ Dybantsa could easily become a top-10 player in the NBA while calling Cameron Boozer close to a can’t-fail prospect, saying the only thing keeping him from a No. 1 ranking in the class is that he profiles better as an elite second star on a team, rather than the engine.