It’s been a mere few weeks since the 2025 NBA Draft concluded, which means it’s high time to start digging into the minutiae of the 2026 class. If you’re not already a hundred prospects deep, I’d say that you’re late and have some serious soul-searching to do about whether this is right for you or not.
All jokes aside, welcome back! I started this column last year to try something different and to capture what a regular scouting year looks like for me. While it was initially intended to be a consistent, shorter, bi-weekly offering, Ouija Wonderings often evolved into lengthy, unstructured brain dumps of any and every player I watched over that period.
And you know what? I liked how it changed and became something on its own. The draft cycle is a yearlong dragon with dependable dates like the combine, but more ripples and unexpected moments than you’d expect. Trying to keep a regular chronicle of a fluid process only succeeds in truncating and devaluing the vibes of this column.
Thus, I’m back for another year to put my thoughts into a scattered article at whatever time interval makes the most sense for me! I’ll continue trying to pull back the curtain on how I look, what I’m looking for, and what I’m seeing as I watch basketball, which I hope helps explain what ultimately takes form in my articles at No Ceilings!
