2021 NBA Draft Relativity Big Board

JR Scouting
4 min readJul 24, 2021

The 2021 NBA Draft is only a few days away, and as a way of measuring how high I am on every prospect compared to the consensus, I decided to compile a relativity big board, which is of course, a ranking of how my big board compares to the consensus. To find the consensus, I used 4 sources and averaged the rankings for players from these. The following websites/media big boards were used:

Tankathon: http://www.tankathon.com/big_board

ESPN: https://www.espn.com.au/nba/draft/bestavailable

The Ringer (Kevin O’Connor): https://nbadraft.theringer.com/

Sports Illustrated (Jeremy Woo): https://www.si.com/nba/2021/07/08/nba-draft-big-board-top-80-prospect-rankings-cade-cunningham-evan-mobley

I also could’ve used Jonathan Wasserman’s, from Bleacher Report, Chad Ford’s, from NBABigBoard, Sam Vecenie’s, from The Athletic, or CBS Sports’, but they were either behind a paywall, or I forgot about them in the moment, and then couldn’t be bothered changing it.

Anyway, lets get into it. Obviously, the prospects will be somewhat scattered from the top to the bottom of the page, but if you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to ask me below.

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Sharife Cooper

My Rank: 5

Consensus: 21.25

Differential: +16.25

Percentage: +325.0%

Alperen Sengun

My Rank: 4

Consensus: 10.25

Differential: +6.25

Percentage: +156.3%

Moses Moody

My Rank: 7

Consensus: 15

Differential: +8.0

Percentage: +114.3%

JT Thor

My Rank: 18

Consensus: 36.25

Differential: +18.25

Percentage: +101.3%

Usman Garuba

My Rank: 8

Consensus: 16

Differential: +8.0

Percentage: +100.0%

Vrenz Bleijenbergh

My Rank: 31

Consensus: 60.33

Differential: +29.33

Percentage: +94.61%

Tre Mann

My Rank: 15

Consensus: 28

Differential: +13.0

Percentage: +86.67%

Jaden Springer

My Rank: 12

Consensus: 21.5

Differential: +9.5

Percentage: +79.17%

Aaron Henry

My Rank: 29

Consensus: 51

Differential: +22.0

Percentage: +75.86%

Isaiah Todd

My Rank: 25

Consensus: 43.5

Differential: +18.5

Percentage: +74.00%

Ziaire Williams

My Rank: 16

Consensus: 25.75

Differential: +9.75

Percentage: +60.94%

Cade Cunningham

My Rank: 1

Consensus: 1.5

Differential: +0.5

Percentage: +50.0%

Chris Duarte

My Rank: 14

Consensus: 21

Differential: +7.0

Percentage: +50.0%

Sandro Mamukelashvili

My Rank: 46

Consensus: 65.5

Differential: +19.5

Percentage: +42.39%

Nah’Shon Hyland

My Rank: 24

Consensus: 33.5

Differential: +9.5

Percentage: +39.58%

David Duke

My Rank: 55

Consensus: 76.33

Differential: +21.33

Percentage: +38.78%

Isaiah Jackson

My Rank: 17

Consensus: 23.5

Differential: +6.5

Percentage: +38.23%

Charles Bassey

My Rank: 32

Consensus: 43.25

Differential: +11.25

Percentage: +35.16%

Kessler Edwards

My Rank: 36

Consensus: 48.33

Differential: +12.33

Percentage: +34.25%

Yves Pons

My Rank: 57

Consensus: 71

Differential: +14.0

Percentage: +24.56%

EJ Onu

My Rank: 64

Consensus: 79.5

Differential: +15.5

Percentage: +24.22%

Jericho Sims

My Rank: 49

Consensus: 59.33

Differential: +10.33

Percentage: +21.08%

Jeremiah Robinson-Earl

My Rank: 42

Consensus: 50.5

Differential: +8.5

Percentage: +20.23%

Quentin Grimes

My Rank: 27

Consensus: 31.25

Differential: +4.25

Percentage: +15.74%

Greg Brown

My Rank: 41

Consensus: 47

Differential: +6.0

Percentage: +14.63%

Evan Mobley

My Rank: 2

Consensus: 2.25

Differential: +0.25

Percentage: +12.5%

Miles McBride

My Rank: 30

Consensus: 33.75

Differential: +3.75

Percentage: +12.5%

Santi Aldama

My Rank: 62

Consensus: 69.5

Differential: +7.5

Percentage: +12.10%

Austin Reaves

My Rank: 38

Consensus: 31.25

Differential: +4.25

Percentage: +11.18%

Rokas Jokubaitas

My Rank: 39

Consensus: 42.67

Differential: +3.67

Percentage: +9.41%

DJ Steward

My Rank: 61

Consensus: 66

Differential: +5.0

Percentage: +8.20%

BJ Boston

My Rank: 37

Consensus: 39.75

Differential: +2.75

Percentage: +7.43%

Isaiah Livers

My Rank: 47

Consensus: 49.67

Differential: +2.67

Percentage: +5.68%

Josh Giddey

My Rank: 9

Consensus: 9.5

Differential: +0.5

Percentage: +5.56%

Duane Washington Jr

My Rank: 65

Consensus: 68.5

Differential: +3.5

Percentage: +5.38%

Juhann Begarin

My Rank: 45

Consensus: 43.25

Differential: +1.75

Percentage: +3.89%

Trey Murphy III

My Rank: 19

Consensus: 19.25

Differential: +0.25

Percentage: +1.32%

Neemias Queta

My Rank: 44

Consensus: 44.25

Differential: +0.25

Percentage: +0.57%

Jalen Green

My Rank: 3

Consensus: 3

Differential: 0.0

Percentage: 0.00%

Franz Wagner

My Rank: 11

Consensus: 11

Differential: 0.0

Percentage: 0.00%

Josh Christopher

My Rank: 35

Consensus: 34.75

Differential: -0.25

Percentage: -0.72%

Joel Ayayi

My Rank: 34

Consensus: 33.67

Differential: -0.33

Percentage: -0.98%

Josh Primo

My Rank: 33

Consensus: 32

Differential: -1.0

Percentage: -3.13%

Jay Huff

My Rank: 58

Consensus: 55.5

Differential: -2.5

Percentage: -4.50%

McKinley Wright IV

My Rank: 60

Consensus: 56.67

Differential: -3.33

Percentage: -5.88%

Scottie Lewis

My Rank: 63

Consensus: 58.5

Differential: -4.5

Percentage: -7.69%

Kai Jones

My Rank: 20

Consensus: 18.5

Differential: -1.5

Percentage: -8.11%

Filip Petrusev

My Rank: 43

Consensus: 39.5

Differential: -3.5

Percentage: -8.86%

Scottie Barnes

My Rank: 6

Consensus: 5.5

Differential: -0.5

Percentage: -9.09%

Joe Wieskamp

My Rank: 50

Consensus: 45.5

Differential: -4.5

Percentage: -9.89%

Cam Thomas

My Rank: 26

Consensus: 23.5

Differential: -2.5

Percentage: -10.64%

Jared Butler

My Rank: 23

Consensus: 20.25

Differential: -2.75

Percentage: -13.58%

Luka Garza

My Rank: 66

Consensus: 54.75

Differential: -11.25

Percentage: -20.55%

Herb Jones

My Rank: 54

Consensus: 44.5

Differential: -9.5

Percentage: -21.35%

Matthew Hurt

My Rank: 67

Consensus: 54.67

Differential: -12.33

Percentage: -22.55%

David Johnson

My Rank: 56

Consensus: 45.5

Differential: -10.5

Percentage: -23.08%

Daishen Nix

My Rank: 53

Consensus: 43

Differential: -10.0

Percentage: -23.26%

James Bouknight

My Rank: 13

Consensus: 9.5

Differential: -3.5

Percentage: -36.84%

Jason Preston

My Rank: 48

Consensus: 32.75

Differential: -15.25

Percentage: -46.56%

Ayo Dosunmu

My Rank: 51

Consensus: 34.25

Differential: -16.75

Percentage: -48.91%

Keon Johnson

My Rank: 21

Consensus: 12

Differential: -9.0

Percentage: -75.0%

Day’ron Sharpe

My Rank: 59

Consensus: 29.5

Differential: -29.5

Percentage: -100.0%

Corey Kispert

My Rank: 28

Consensus: 13.25

Differential: -14.75

Percentage: -111.3%

Jalen Suggs

My Rank: 10

Consensus: 3.25

Differential: -5.75

Percentage: -176.9%

Davion Mitchell

My Rank: 40

Consensus: 12

Differential: -28.0

Percentage: -233.3%

Jonathan Kuminga

My Rank: 22

Consensus: 6.5

Differential: -15.5

Percentage: -238.5%

Jalen Johnson

My Rank: 52

Consensus: 14.25

Differential: -37.75

Percentage: -264.9%

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Now, that concludes my relativity big board. I hoped you enjoyed reading through to see where I have each prospect ranked relative to the consensus. In case you were wondering, I left off the player analysis, as if you want that, I will always respond to any comments about particular players.

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