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Height: 6’4
Weight: 200
Class: Freshman
Draft Age: 20
Brayden Burries began the season in a funk and was on the precipice of cascading down draft boards — or off of them completely. Then he flipped the script and has become a driving force behind Arizona’s undefeated start to the campaign, churning out 20-point performances with ease and looking like the accomplished scoring guard we all expected coming out of high school. The Knicks team can always use a bit more self-creation juice from a guard not named Jalen Brunson. Burries ought to suffice.
A lack of playmaking for others will sour some on Burries, but the scoring package is phenomenal. He’s a potent pull-up shooter, an aggressive, bullish slasher, and generally one of the most effective one-man engines in this draft. The passing feel feels less like an Achilles heel than a resource Burries just does not tap into enough. Don’t count out improvement on that front. If he continues to perform like this — and if the Wildcats keep stacking wins — Burries could rise higher than this.
