2026 NBA Draft Picks 3-10: Boozer to Memphis, Wilson to Chicago, Acuff in Range

After AJ Dybantsa to Washington and Darryn Peterson to Utah, the 2026 NBA Draft board past pick No. 2 leans on three names: Cameron Boozer to Memphis at No. 3, Caleb Wilson to Chicago at No. 4, and Darius Acuff Jr. to the Sacramento or Brooklyn slot, per CBS Sports' Isaac Trotter and ESPN's Jeremy Woo. Tuesday's first round opens 8 p.m. ET at Barclays Center.

The thing about this class: NBA teams largely see little separation between the top four. The Wizards' Dybantsa decision lands top-line news, but picks 3 through 7 carry more variance than any draft since 2023, with multiple mocks splitting on Acuff, Nate Ament, Mikel Brown Jr., and Keaton Wagler in the 5-to-10 range.

Pick 3: Memphis Grizzlies, Cameron Boozer (Duke)

The Grizzlies are the consensus Boozer destination if Dybantsa and Peterson go 1-2. The Duke power forward averaged 22.5 points and 10.2 rebounds in his freshman season en route to the 2026 Naismith Trophy, per Yahoo Sports. He is the fifth freshman ever to win it and the third from Duke, joining Cooper Flagg and Zion Williamson.

Memphis sits at one of the most analytically driven front offices in the league, per Parker Fleming's mock, and the Grizzlies moved up three spots in the May lottery to land at No. 3. The fit is clean: a 6-foot-10 modern four next to Jaren Jackson Jr. in a frontcourt that can flex large or small depending on the lineup math. A possible Ja Morant trade in the next twelve months gives Memphis a parallel rebuild track that Boozer's timeline fits.

Pick 4: Chicago Bulls, Caleb Wilson (North Carolina)

Wilson to the Bulls is now the locked projection across multiple boards. Mike McGraw's Daily Herald mock, NBC Sports' Bulls preview, and the Tar Heel Blog mock all have Wilson at No. 4 to Chicago. Wilson averaged 19.8 points and 9.4 rebounds in 24 games at UNC before a fractured thumb ended his freshman season in March, with the upside case ranked behind only Dybantsa by some executive boards.

The Bulls' incumbent wing room around Matas Buzelis and Coby White has space for a 6-foot-10 versatile forward who can defend up and run secondary creation. Wilson's modern positional flex is the cleanest plug-and-play hit at the No. 4 slot.

Pick 5: Charlotte or LA Clippers, Darius Acuff or Nate Ament

Pick No. 5 belongs to the LA Clippers (acquired from Indiana). Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman has Acuff at No. 5, per Bleacher Report. ESPN's Jeremy Woo has Acuff at No. 6 with someone else at five, per ESPN's combine recap. The split exists because Acuff is the second guard on the board and the 6-foot-2.5 wingspan profile gives some teams pause.

Acuff was the SEC Player of the Year as a freshman at Arkansas and led the Razorbacks to the Sweet 16. He shot 44 percent from three on real volume, per ESPN's draft profile. His combine measurements were 6-foot-2 barefoot, 185.8 pounds, with a 6-foot-6.5 wingspan, per NBA.com's prospect profile. Nate Ament is the other name in the 5-to-7 range; he is the alternative if a team prioritizes positional size at the wing.

Pick 6: Brooklyn Nets, Nate Ament or Keaton Wagler

The Nets at No. 6 are the team most likely to take a swing on a wing scorer or the third-best guard on the board. Tennessee's Nate Ament and Illinois' Keaton Wagler are the two names most in the conversation, per the CBS Sports Ament-Wagler mock. Wagler's combine week moved his stock into top-10 territory after he averaged roughly 18.5 points and 4 assists per game at Illinois, per NBA.com.

Pick 7: Sacramento Kings, Best Guard Available

The Kings sit at No. 7 and the search is for a long-term plug at lead guard. The CBS Sports late-June mock has Sacramento going guard, with Louisville's Mikel Brown Jr. as the value name if Acuff is off the board, per the CBS Sports Ament-Wagler mock. Sacramento's incumbent guard room is De'Aaron Fox-less after last season's trade and the No. 7 pick is the cleanest spot to take a high-usage college creator.

Picks 8 to 10: Atlanta, Dallas, Milwaukee

Atlanta has the New Orleans pick at No. 8 and is the trade-back candidate of the lottery. The Hawks already have a guard core and a developmental wing class. Dallas at No. 9 (per the NBA.com order) is the Anthony Davis-and-Cooper Flagg context team, with a need at wing depth. Milwaukee at No. 10 is the most veteran-leaning team in the lottery and the most likely trade-up bidder if a top-five player slips.

Betting Impact and Draft-Night Markets

The No. 3 pick market has Cameron Boozer as the chalk at most US books, with no second name inside plus-400 as of Sunday night. The No. 4 pick market has Caleb Wilson as the chalk with Acuff as the only price under plus-300 alternative. Memphis and Chicago are the cleanest exposure if you treat the top-four as a sequencing question rather than an identity question.

The deeper variance is the No. 5 to No. 10 range. Acuff is consensus inside the top seven on every published mock (CBS, Bleacher Report, ESPN) but the second-guard premium creates pricing inefficiency on books that posted draft-position over/unders ahead of Tuesday. Ament and Wagler are the two names whose stock has swung the widest inside the last two weeks.

The draft-night live market repriced Wizards exposure inside the June 21 NBA Draft preview on StatSniper after Peterson informed Utah he was done with team visits. The Memphis-Boozer pricing closed in line.

DFS Angle: 2026-27 Rookie of the Year

The 2026-27 Rookie of the Year futures market typically opens within 24 hours of draft night and slots the No. 1 pick as the chalk. Dybantsa's setup with the Wizards is among the cleanest in modern Rookie of the Year history (rebuilding roster, no incumbent wing creator, 30-plus minutes-per-game projection).

The contrarian is Acuff. Sacramento's pace last season and a guard-need roster combine into the cleanest per-game volume per possession of any non-Dybantsa pick on the board. Wait for the Tuesday-night market open before sizing exposure.

What to Watch Next

The first round opens 8 p.m. ET Tuesday June 23 at Barclays Center. The second round opens 8 p.m. ET Wednesday June 24. Watch Monday-evening trade chatter on the No. 3 Memphis pick (the most-mentioned trade-back slot if New Orleans, Atlanta, or Charlotte pushes a swap), and the Cleveland-Cavaliers wing depth conversation if Henri Veesaar slides past the lottery.

The international class anchors the late first round. New Zealand Breakers forward Karim Lopez (Mexico) and Washington forward Hannes Steinbach (Germany) are the two names most likely to move into first-round territory, per NBA Big Board's international evaluations and the NBA.com consensus mock.

Chad AI tracks every draft-night prop, position over/under, and rookie-of-the-year futures on the slate inside the StatSniper app. The NBA daily picks page updates with draft-night exposure. For the No. 1 and No. 2 intel, see StatSniper's Wizards Dybantsa No. 1 piece and the Caleb Wilson scouting report.

Mock data sourced from CBS Sports' Isaac Trotter, ESPN's Jeremy Woo, Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman, and Parker Fleming's Substack. Boozer awards via [Yahoo Sports' Naismith recap](https://sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-basketball/breaking-news/article/dukes-cameron-boozer-wins-mens-n