New favorite for top pick of 2024 NBA Draft, and it's likely someone you've never heard of

Unless you're a true NBA Draft nerd or a big fan of JL Bourg-en-Bresse (who? exactly...), then you probably have never heard of the player expected to be selected first overall in two days.

The 2024 NBA Draft has been dunked on repeatedly, called the worst ever many times, and that lack of excitement is understandable when you look at the top of the draft. For weeks, Alexandre Sarr was the favorite to go first overall. Before a month or so ago basketball fans probably had never heard of Sarr, a big man from France.

Sarr was replaced since late last week as the betting favorite to go first overall in the NBA Draft by Zaccharie Risacher, another French player you probably hadn't heard of. Risacher is a fairly big -225 favorite to go first overall at BetMGM, and Yahoo Sports NBA draft expert Krysten Peek agrees in her latest mock draft.

We've had underwhelming NBA Drafts before. It's rare when the first pick is a virtual unknown to all but the most hardcore of basketball fans.



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