Top NBA Draft analyst gives the Duke basketball big man high marks.
Duke basketball’s final game Cooper Flagg will very certainly be selected first overall in the 2025 NBA Draft, which takes place on June 25–26. Following that, freshmen Khaman Maluach and Kon Knueppel might be two more lottery selections for the Blue Devils, but it’s impossible to predict which one would be selected first.
However, it appears that the Duke basketball social media team thinks Maluach should be included in the top three picks at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. In response to a post by ESPN’s Jonathan Givony, in which the well-known analyst highlights the progress Maluach has made this week during the pre-draft process, the Blue Devils’ account added its “Top 3 pick” prediction for the 7-foot-2, 250-pound center from South Sudan:
Givony commented, “Projected top-10 pick Khaman Maluach looks fantastic working out in the pre-draft process,” over his own highlights of the 18-year-old’s workout. “Moving and getting off the floor extremely well, and made significant gains with his skill-level, footwork and touch over the past year at Duke.”
In Jon Scheyer’s third season as head coach in Durham, Maluach, who had only been playing basketball for around five years, started all 39 games for a Duke team that ended 35-4 overall and advanced to the Final Four. In 21.2 minutes a game, he shot 71.2 percent from the field and 76.6 percent from the free throw line, averaging 8.6 points, 6.6 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks.
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