Now that the 2020-21 organizational NBA prospect rankings are out, it’s time to move on to the rankings that everyone really cares about: the 50 best prospects in the NBA.
It’s worth noting the genesis of this project: it came as I considered that baseball and hockey have tremendous public infrastructures for ranking organizationally-controlled prospects. For instance, the hockey side here at The Athletic is tremendous with Corey Pronman providing detailed rankings every year of each prospect within each team. On the baseball side,
