College freshmen have dominated the top of NBA draft classes in recent years, with Paolo Banchero being the 13th consecutive one-and-done prospect to be the first player to shake hands with the commissioner on draft night.

You have to go all the way back to 2009 — when the LA Clippers selected Blake Griffin out of Oklahoma — to find the last non-freshman selected with the first pick.

The streak of college diaper dandies drafted first is expected to end in 2023 with France’s Victor Wembanyama the heavy favorite to be the top choice and Scoot Henderson from the G League Ignite considered the biggest threat to challenge as the top prospect.

Still, most NBA prospects continue to choose the traditional route of playing NCAA basketball, and this freshman class is expected to dominate the 2023 lottery.

In this episode I discuss my top five incoming freshman NBA prospects

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