Alexandre Sarr Leads Odds to Go 1st Overall in 2024 NBA Draft
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00:00 As we look at who actually is going to go in the opening round or maybe in those top couple of
00:09 picks, again it is not a great draft class but Alexander Sarr, the native Frenchman who plays
00:16 his pro basketball currently in Perth as a part of the NBA or NBHell excuse me, that's the
00:22 professional league down under. He is a hefty -190 odds on favorite to be that number one overall
00:30 pick that potentially the Atlanta Hawks are going to make. There you see Donovan Klingen on your
00:36 screen. 14 and won the number on Klingen. We would expect to see a couple of those Connecticut
00:42 Huskies from last year's national championship team, Klingen and Steph Castle going in the top
00:48 five, top ten. But really the story is Alexander Sarr going first overall, the presumptive favorite
00:55 there, but everybody else behind him not being all that strong of a draft class. No, it's certainly
01:02 not like the superstar front level talent where you draft that the player it's like okay season
01:07 tickets are about to go through the roof that's not going to be in the equation because we look
01:10 Donovan Klingen is a really good college basketball player, super athletic, but when we think about
01:14 some of these guys that are supposed to be drafted in the top five it's like yeah Klingen shoots like
01:18 45 percent from three-point range. He's going to be unbelievable. It's not really his game,
01:21 he's just an athletic big man that's going to be able to run the court which does have some value,
01:25 but my goodness third overall is kind of crazy. You take a look at Dillingham and Shepard, one of
01:30 those guys bench warmer coming off there. Now granted was on the bench because it made some
01:34 sense to get that instant impact scoring, but come on man Shepard is a top five draft pick in the NBA.
01:39 That's one of those guys you take a look at the end of the first round or the second round you're
01:42 like oh man this guy could be pretty good here and fill in as an active shooter in the NBA.
01:46 It's just the way this draft is going to play out. There's not a lot of excitement around it
01:49 and quite frankly where will the superstars be? We won't know if this draft is really effective
01:54 until five or six years down the road, but I got to tell you right now the list of oh my goodness
01:58 we got to get this guy and yes if you got the number one pick it's like oh who do we get?
02:02 Some guy from France here. Well it worked out well last year, I don't know if it works out as good this year.
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