What if the 2024 NBA Draft happened again? Redraft the class two seasons in, and watch Zaccharie Risacher — the actual first pick — slide to twelfth while the Rookie of the Year takes his place.
How the 2024 draft really went, pick by pick through the first round.
The first round of the actual 2024 NBA draft: pick number, player and the team that drafted him.
The same picks, re-made with hindsight — and how far each player moves from where he actually went.
The first round of a 2024 NBA redraft: pick number, player, the team holding that pick, and where he actually went.
Up 3 placesNo changeNo changeUp 7 placesUp 10 placesUp 1 place
Up 31 placesUp 8 placesUp 20 placesUp 14 places
Up 28 placesDown 11 places
Up 19 placesNo changeDown 6 places
UndraftedDown 12 placesNo change
Up 26 placesNo change
Up 32 placesUp 6 placesUp 4 placesUp 6 places
Up 19 placesDown 5 placesDown 8 places
Up 24 placesDown 21 places
Up 11 places
San Antonio took him fourth and got Rookie of the Year, on 92 of 100 first-place votes. Two seasons in he is running the offence of a team that reached the 2026 Finals. The only player in this class with a major award.
Washington took him second and the redraft leaves him there. All-Rookie First Team is the whole trophy case so far — but he is a centre who blocked 1.7 a game through his first two seasons, and he turned 21 during the second of them.
The thinnest record of this five by a distance: one Rising Stars appearance, and not even an All-Rookie team. What he does have is the second season — 13.5 a game after 4.4 as a rookie. That jump is what holds his pick.
Ten teams passed. He nearly doubled his scoring in year two, 8.6 to 16.3, and blocks more shots than a wing his size usually does. Seven places is the biggest rise in this top five.
Miami took him 15th and got a centre who rebounds like someone a decade older — 8.3 a game across two seasons. All-Rookie Second Team is his only honour so far, and ten places is a long way to climb on rebounding alone.
The Hawks held the first pick and used it on Zaccharie Risacher. Castle went fourth, won Rookie of the Year on 92 of 100 first-place votes, and is the first name on this board. Risacher is twelfth — an eleven-place fall for the pick that opened the draft.
He averaged 4.4 points as a rookie and third overall looked like a miss. The next season he averaged 13.5. The redraft still has him third, which is less a verdict on the pick than a reminder that two years is not long enough to call one.
Buzelis was the eleventh pick and is fourth here, the biggest rise in this top five. Ten teams chose ahead of Chicago, and by the end of his second season he was scoring 16.3 a game.
Every player in this class has two seasons behind him. Nobody has an All-Star selection, an All-NBA team or a championship; between them they have one major award. In 2014 the best player of the class was still in Serbia a year after the draft — this order will look different in five years.
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