BYU star AJ Dybantsa is among the top prospects in the 2026 NBA draft, and he’s been impressing at the draft combine in Chicago this week.<\/p>\n
Dybantsa was measured<\/a> at 6’8.5″ and 217 pounds with a 7’0.5″ wingspan and a standing reach of 8’10”. He also had a maximum vertical leap, the highest recorded at the combine so far.<\/p>\n Dybantsa also showed off his speed and agility in the 3\/4 court sprint and the pro lane drill:<\/p>\n Dybantsa was also seen doing drills with fellow top prospects Cam Boozer of Duke and Caleb Wilson of UNC:<\/p>\n Both B\/R’s\u00a0Jonathan Wasserman<\/a>\u00a0and ESPN’s\u00a0Jeremy Woo<\/a>\u00a0project Dybantsa to be selected by the Washington Wizards with the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft. He finished his freshman year at BYU averaging 25.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.1 steals.<\/p>\n “Nobody seems to have serious worries about Dybantsa,” Wasserman stated. “It’s obviously easy to project upside around a powerful, 6’9″ wing with elite footwork for creation, high-level shotmaking skill, some passing smarts and an NCAA-leading 25.5-point-per-game scoring average at 19 years old. His intangibles appear to be pluses, specifically his intensity, alpha mindset and rumored professionalism.”<\/p>\n The Wizards have a strong crop of young talent with Alex Sarr, Kyshawn George and Tre Johnson. They also acquired All-Stars Trae Young and Anthony Davis in trades last season, creating optimism for a bright future.<\/p>\n If the Wizards add a talented prospect like Dybantsa, they could have the chance to emerge from their rebuild and contend for a playoff spot as quickly as next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BYU star AJ Dybantsa is among the top prospects in the 2026 NBA draft, and he’s been impressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-667146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}