{"id":694144,"date":"2026-04-02T15:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:59:22","slug":"the-latest-nba-draft-buzz-entering-final-four-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694144\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest NBA Draft buzz entering Final Four weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many NBA talent evaluators, agents and other league personnel are on their way to Indianapolis for this weekend’s Final Four \u2026 if they haven\u2019t already landed in Hoosierland.<\/p>\n

And there’s a ton of first-round talent to be scouted from the various Final Four participants (Arizona, Illinois, Michigan and UConn) that has scouts excited for this closing burst of college games for the season.<\/p>\n

Illinois freshman guard Keaton Wagler, pinpointed by <\/a>The Stein Line<\/a> as a one-and-done sleeper back in November<\/a>, has seemingly cemented himself months later as a surefire top-10 pick. Also must-scout are Wagler’s fellow Diaper Dandies with Arizona \u2014 Brayden Burries and Koa Peat \u2014 as well as Michigan’s imposing frontcourt trio: Yaxel Lendeborg, Morez Johnson Jr. and Aday Mara.<\/p>\n

What does UConn’s Elite Eight hero Braylon Mullins, for that matter, have in store for an encore after his l-o-n-g triple that dunked Duke?<\/p>\n

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No shortage of options to choose from \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n

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4:30 PM \u00b7 Apr 1, 2026 \u00b7 44.2K Views<\/p>\n

64 Replies \u00b7 16 Reposts \u00b7 228 Likes<\/p>\n

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Let’s set things up by diving into a fresh batch of NBA Draft-related notes:<\/p>\n

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Leading off with the aforementioned Wagler \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many NBA talent evaluators, agents and other league personnel are on their way to Indianapolis for this weekend’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-694144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335948041114228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}