{"id":694292,"date":"2026-04-02T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:30:19","slug":"projected-1-pick-aj-dybantsa-says-he-hasnt-made-an-nba-draft-decision-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/694292\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected #1 pick AJ Dybantsa says he hasn’t made an NBA draft decision yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by BYU college basketball star AJ Dybantsa on behalf of Red Bull. Dybantsa reveals that he still hasn\u2019t made a decision on whether he\u2019ll declare for the 2026 NBA Draft yet and discusses what will factor into his decision. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube<\/a> or YahooSports.TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Aj Dybantsa, man, we appreciate your time.<\/p>\n

Season’s over, you’re looking forward a little bit.<\/p>\n

Have you made any decisions about what, is next for AJ Dybantsa?<\/p>\n

You wanna break on the show?<\/p>\n

No, I haven’t.<\/p>\n

I haven’t talked to my mom.<\/p>\n

She’s pretty much been making a lot of decisions in life for me.<\/p>\n

she decided, where I went to high school.<\/p>\n

she, she conf- I said I was going to BYU, she confirmed that BYU was good for me.<\/p>\n

So she’s kind of been making the decisions.<\/p>\n

Why do you do, like, why do you choose to do it that way?<\/p>\n

she just has like a, like a knack for things.<\/p>\n

Like she just, I mean, she’s never star- steered me the wrong way.<\/p>\n

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doesn’t matter what in life, just if I ever come to her for some advice or anything, she never steered me the wrong way.<\/p>\n

So, you know, I, I have my, all my trust in her and then the utmost faith that she’ll make the right decision for me.<\/p>\n

From a human element, AJ, right, like you could be in Utah next year, you could be in some random NBA city.<\/p>\n

Like do you ever just sit back and, and sort of think about the fact that so much life could change in the next three months?<\/p>\n

I mean, yeah.<\/p>\n

Like, I mean, I’m on, I’m on social media.<\/p>\n

I see people putting different jerseys on me, and I see all the edits.<\/p>\n

But I mean, I just try to tune it out because I don’t even know what I’m doing, so I can’t really, can’t really get too excited or anything like that until it’s a firm decision.<\/p>\n

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I know she wants me to graduate college.<\/p>\n

so I, I don’t know if she’s just basing it off of, “Yeah, you’re gonna stay in school to graduate,” or she just wants me to, go accomplish my dreams.<\/p>\n

Who knows?<\/p>\n

So if your mom wants you to stay for four years and get a degree at BYU and play basketball the whole time, you’re in for that.<\/p>\n

Well, you’re, you’re, you’re committed to whatever.<\/p>\n

Okay.<\/p>\n

Have you paid any attention to this NBA season and the teams that are bad and the, where you could end up being?<\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/p>\n

I mean, I watch, I watch the NBA regardless.<\/p>\n

I’ve been watching the NBA for as long as I can remember.<\/p>\n

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I know what teams are good, I know what teams are bad.<\/p>\n

So I mean, obviously I’m seeing how, I see all the tank-a-thons.<\/p>\n

I see, I see everything.<\/p>\n

I mean, I’m on social media.<\/p>\n

I’m not gonna play dumb, see, like, and say that I don’t see anything.<\/p>\n

All right.<\/p>\n

So you’re joining us on behalf of Red Bull, and we go back and look at how you picked BYU, ’cause this is epic.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull Air Force skydiving team came down from the heavens with the hat delivery.<\/p>\n

That is absolutely epic work.<\/p>\n

so here’s the real question, man.<\/p>\n

When you decide, when your mom helps you decide what’s coming next, what, what are we doing the top skydiving to announce it to the world?<\/p>\n

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I don’t, I don’t know what tops this.<\/p>\n

This was crazy.<\/p>\n

When they brought m- the, when they brought me this idea, I didn’t really know what to do.<\/p>\n

But they just told me I have to stand there, and and he’ll pretty much do the rest.<\/p>\n

but who knows what we’ll do- Would you have skydived with him?<\/p>\n

Nah.<\/p>\n

No, no, no.<\/p>\n

Nah, not right now.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll eventually try skydiving.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll eventually- Yeah when I’m done playing basketball, I will jump out a plane<\/p>\n

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