The NBA actually posted the testing results from the combine pretty quickly this year. So just like last year and the year before, I've compiled bSPARQ ratings for everyone who participated in the event. For a full explainer on bSPARQ, click here.
As has been the case under the new CBA, any prospect who is healthy enough to participate, had to do so, which means that unlike in many previous seasons, we actually have strength and agility data for the top players in the class. Only seven of the 78 players attending the combine did not participate in testing, so we have data for the remaining 71. As usual, the international players who did not attend the combine will have their own combine later this month. Once those players participate, I'll add them to the database.
Before we get into the data and a few of my key takeaways, please remember that bSPARQ does NOT measure how good a player is at basketball. It strictly measures his performance in athletic testing at the combine relative to his peers.
Got all that? Great. Let’s get into it.
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- One thing to note is that this year, the NBA went back to not using combination position listings. Nobody was listed as "PG-SG" or "SF-PF" or "PF-C" at the combine as they had been in some previous years. That means nobody was categorized as a combo guard or combo forward by bSPARQ. It's all just point guards, wings, and bigs. We'll talk about that more when we get to some of the prospects below.
- Let's start with the consensus top four prospects, in alphabetical order.
- AJ Dybantsa tested in the 93rd percentile for a wing. That was driven in large part by his 90th percentile standing vertical and 97th percentile max vertical at 6-8.5 and 217 pounds, which is very good size for a wing. He also had the 10th-best three-quarter court sprint time in the class.
- Caleb Wilson was listed by the NBA as a power forward, which means he automatically gets categorized by bSPARQ as a big. He checked in with a 75th percentile bSPARQ score at that position, but if he was listed as a combo forward, he'd be in the 84th percentile, and if listed as a wing, he's be in the 92nd percentile. Wilson also had good vertical leaps, with a standing vert (34.5 inches) even better than Dybantsa's (33.5).
- Cameron Boozer finished with a 94.48 bSPARQ, a bit better than the 90.78 mark his father posted back in 2002. Cameron's a 74th percentile athlete for a big, compared with 56th percentile for Carlos. Cameron checked in a half-inch taller and just over 5 pounds lighter than his dad. Carlos posted a better lane agility time but Cameron had him beat by a lot in the max vertical leap (35 inches to 28.5 inches). Boozer does not have his father listed among the top 20 physical/athletic comparables in the bSPARQ database, which I'll get into later this week. They only have a 77.06 similarity score.
- Darryn Peterson checked in with a 55th percentile bSPARQ for a wing. If listed as a combo guard, he would have been in the 73rd percentile. His score for a wing is held down by his somewhat smaller frame for the position (6-4.5 and 198.8 pounds) combined with his surprisingly low (for his size) score in the lane agility drill. But here's the thing: If Peterson had posted the exact same testing results at 210 pounds instead of his current weight, he'd shoot up into the 73rd percentile for a wing and 86th percentile for a combo guard, because bSPARQ tends to scale with size.
- Andrej Stojakovic (Peja's son) being in this draft makes me feel extremely old. He tested as a 71st percentile athlete for a wing at 6-5.5 and 206 pounds.
- Brayden Burries tested as the most athletic wing in the class, with a 96th percentile bSPARQ. He weighed in at a study 215.4 pounds at 6-3.75, which bSPARQ loves, and then he had the fourth-best lane agility time and fourth-best standing vertical of any player at the combine.
- Kylan Boswell narrowly missed becoming the sixth player ever with a 100th percentile bSPARQ. He checked in at 99.9%. Listed as a point guard and measuring 6-1.25 and 226 pounds, Boswell had a 33-inch standing vert and 38-inch max vert, and he also did well in the lane agility and shuttle run drills.
- On the opposite end of the spectrum, Isaiah Evans checked in with a 6th percentile bSPARQ. Much of that was driven by the fact that at 6-5.5 and just 186 pounds, he is incredibly slight for a wing. He then posted a really bad lane agility score and just average vertical leaps, and bSPARQ really does not like average or worse verticals from players with slight frames.
- Yaxel Lendeborg improved on his performance from last year's combine. He tested in the 16th percentile for a big in 2025 and moved up to the 23rd percentile in 2026. That's because he grew a quarter of an inch, added around 7 pounds, and dramatically improved his lane agility and shuttle run times while staying consistent with the sprint and the verticals.
- Lendeborg's Michigan teammate Aday Mara has the second-longest standing reach in my database, behind only Tacko Fall. Mara tested as only a 26th percentile athlete for a big due to his incredibly underwhelming vertical leaps and the fact that despite being 7-3, he weighed "only" 259.8 pounds.
- Keaton Wagler and Kingston Flemings posted nearly identical bSPARQ figures despite Wagler measuring 6-5, 188 and Flemings checking in just 6-2.5 and 183. Flemings posted one of the best lane agility times in the class (10.61 seconds) and also had the second-best shuttle run, and his verticals (33.5 and 40.5 inches) were very strong. Wagler posted slightly worse figures than Flemings across the board but did so in a larger frame, which bSPARQ likes to see.
- Darius Acuff measured at 6-2, 185.8 pounds, which from what I understand was a pleasant surprise because his size is supposedly one of the few areas of concern. He's a 72nd percentile athlete for a point guard, according to bSPARQ.
- There was a quintet of big men that posted a bSPARQ in the 98th percentile or better: Tobi Lawal, Tobe Awaka, Koa Peat, Morez Johnson, and Zuby Ejiofor. I was aware of Peat and Johnson coming into the event as potential first-round picks, but I hadn't yet heard of the other guys. Lawal, in particular, had a ridiculous combine with a 40-inch standing vertical and 45.5-inch max vertical. The 40-inch standing vert is the second-best in combine history behind only Keon Johnson. He posted the 14th-highest raw bSPARQ among the 1,597 players in the database.
- Billy Richmond III posted the seventh-best lane agility time in the database, which goes back to the 2000 season. He also tied with Acuff for the best three-quarter court sprint time in the class.
- Alex Karaban participated in the combine two years ago and tested as the fifth-worst athlete in the database, in the 1st percentile. He showed a ton of improvement here, getting up into the 28th percentile this time around. He did that by gaining 6 pounds and dramatically improving his standing vertical from 22.5 to 28 inches.
- Cameron Carr posted an 86th percentile bSPARQ with the sixth-best standing vertical in the database and fantastic scores in the lane agility and shuttle drills. If he had a bigger frame than his 184.4 pounds, he'd have done even better.
- Just to give you an idea of how size and position affect the bSPARQ percentiles, consider that Wagler (83.84) and Lendeborg (83.85) posted nearly identical bSPARQ ratings but Wagler checked in as an 87th percentile athlete for a point guard and Lendeborg was in the 23rd percentile for a big.
That's all for now. Feel free to poke around the bSPARQ page while I update the athletic comparison engine to get that ready to go for everyone. Once that's done, I'll have a post with the closest comparables for all the top prospects, just like last year.
