Judging by the ranking of the top 100 NBA Draft prospects that ESPN’s Jonathan Givony released on Wednesday, it’s conceivable that the Duke basketball program loses almost every member of its 2024-25 rotation to the professional ranks come spring. At the same time, though, the Blue Devils could enjoy a historic night in late June.
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As is the case with seemingly every credible 2025 big board and mock draft, Givony tags Duke basketball freshman forward and expected Blue Devil centerpiece Cooper Flagg as the No. 1 prospect.
There’s little drama around who is No. 1 in our new 2025 NBA Draft Top 100 prospect ranking. Everything after that is wide open, with international basketball underway, and the college season still a month away.
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— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) October 9, 2024
But Flagg, a long-limbed phenom who finished No. 1 overall on the 247Sports 2025 Composite and arrived in Durham as the most-hyped Duke newcomer since Zion Williamson ahead of the 2018-19 campaign, isn’t the only Blue Devil appearing high on Givony’s list.
Fellow Duke rookie Kon Knueppel, a sharpshooting wing from Wisconsin who ranked No. 18 in the 2025 recruiting cycle, pops up at No. 6 overall among 2025 draft prospects in the eyes of Givony.
And yet another first-year collegian under third-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer’s command, 7-foot-2 center Khaman Maluach from South Sudan, appears two spots below Knueppel at No. 8.
Junior guard Tyrese Proctor rounds out the Blue Devils in first-rounder territory at No. 28 overall.
Another anticipated starter in the Duke backcourt, sophomore Caleb Foster, checks in at No. 44.
Givony then slots Duke freshman guard/forward Isaiah Evans at No. 49 and graduate transfer guard Sion James at No. 54.
The record for the most Blue Devils to hear their names in a two-round draft sits at five — also an ACC record. That happened in 2022 with Paolo Banchero coming off the board No. 1 overall, Mark Williams at No. 15, AJ Griffin at No. 16, Wendell Moore Jr. at No. 26, and Trevor Keels at No. 42.
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