The Draft and Stash Podcast
All things NBA draft. We will breakdown games, prospects, draft boards of all kinds; and we will try to teach what we know, while continuing to learn more about how to scout players for the NBA. If you love basketball and the NBA draft, you are in the right spot!
Episodes
18 episodes
Rookie Of The Year Blueprint
Rookie of the Year talk gets messy fast because we argue about what “should” matter instead of what actually wins votes. So we did the unglamorous work: we looked at the patterns behind recent NBA Rookie of the Year winners and built a simple, ...
Vegas Summer League Takeaways
Vegas in July will humble you fast. We’re back from NBA Summer League with sunburn, a notebook full of names, and a much clearer sense of what actually matters when rookies and second-year guys get their first real NBA-style reps.We tal...
Summer League's Best Games!
Summer League is the one time of year where hope feels measurable, and the whole NBA world is in one building trying to spot who belongs. We’re back with a 2026 NBA Summer League viewing guide that cuts through the noise and turns July basketba...
2026 NBA Draft Grades and Trades!
Giannis finally gets moved and the entire league exhales, then the 2026 NBA Draft immediately turns into a two-day sprint of fits, swings, and front offices telling on themselves. We start with the trade shockwaves, what Miami looks like with a...
Full First Round Mock Draft
The week before the NBA Draft is when every rumor sounds confident and almost none of it is safe to trust. We sit down with Chip Williams, Parker Fleming, and Rusty from Bluff City Media to build a full first-round mock draft and stress-test th...
Mock GM for Heat and Charlotte
Pick 13 and Pick 14 look small on paper, but they can expose everything about a front office: patience, urgency, and whether the salary cap is driving the plan or the plan is driving the cap. We finish our mock GM series by putting the Miami He...
Mock Draft: GM Picks 9 Through 12
Dallas at No. 9 might be the most fascinating kind of draft problem: not bad enough to reset cleanly, not stable enough to draft for a single, obvious need. We talk through what the Mavericks actually are right now, a post-Luka roster pivoting ...
The Draft Starts Here: Mocking picks 5-8
Pick five is the moment the 2026 NBA Draft stops being predictable and starts exposing front offices. We jump into picks five through eight of our mock draft GM series and get honest about what each team can actually do, not what fans wish they...
Mock Draft For The Top Four
The top of the 2026 NBA Draft looks simple on a graphic and complicated everywhere else. We’re in GM mode, walking through what the first four teams should actually do once you factor in roster fit, salary cap limits, and the kind of fan pressu...
Tank Season Paid Off And Now We Argue Prospects
Memphis lands the No. 3 pick and the mood shifts from survival to possibility. We sit down with Anthony Sain from ESPN Radio and Bluff City Media to unpack what the 2026 NBA Draft lottery result means for the Grizzlies, how fans in the city act...
Lottery Winners and Losers
The ping pong balls finally dropped, and the 2026 NBA Draft Lottery didn’t just set an order, it changed a few franchises’ entire posture. I jump on a day late to react to the results and what they mean in plain roster-building terms: the Washi...
Drafting Players Not Archetypes!
The NBA Draft is full of “we can fix him” bets and most of them fail for the same reasons. I break down the biggest prospect archetype traps I see every year, using a mix of film logic and model-driven indicators that actually translate when th...
Scouting the NBA Draft with Help
The NBA Draft is full of confident takes that fall apart the second you ask, “What’s the process?” We wanted to go deeper, so we brought on two of our favorite draft evaluators, Parker Fleming and Chip Williams Jr., to explain how they actually...
Fade The Hype
Everyone has a draft crush right now, so we decided to do the uncomfortable work: naming the 2026 NBA Draft prospects we’re fading because the market is overdrafting them. I’m not calling these guys bad players. I’m saying the current consensus...
Stop Overthinking It And Draft The Guy
The play-in is here, the tanking is finally over, and the draft board debates are about to get unbearable. So we do something simpler: we tell you the five 2026 NBA Draft prospects we trust, even if the public is all over the place on them, and...
Draft Darlings For The 2026 NBA Draft
We react to an all-time fun March Madness and spotlight the players who used the tournament to change how scouts talk about them. Then we run five “Draft Darlings” through our model and get honest about what translates, what caps upside, and wh...
The 2026 Point Guard Crunch!
The NBA Draft point guard debate is getting messy for a reason: the more you watch March Madness, the more the “best guard” question stops having an easy answer. We come in hot with tournament takeaways, including why Texas surprised, why Arizo...