Salt Lake Tribune

It’s finally here. After weeks of rumors and subterfuge and misdirection, the NBA draft takes place Thursday night at 6 p.m. MT, broadcast on ABC and ESPN. At long last, the suspense of which players go where — following the inevitable selection of French phenom Victor Wembanyama at No. 1 — will be revealed. The Utah Jazz, presently set to pick at Nos. 9, 16, and 28, will take major steps in shaping their future. Will they trade up higher in the top 10? Perhaps package their two latter picks to get another lottery selection. They’ve got a ton of possibilities. We’ve analyzed the prospects at the top, middle, and end of the first round. We’ve taken a couple stabs at predicting who they might take — the first one a month ago, the second two weeks ago. Here’s one last shot at seeing how things might go.