Tracking where top undrafted free agents in 2025 NBA Draft signed after Round 2
Every year, there are undrafted free agents who still find their way into earning significant minutes. Last year, that was Justin Edwards on the Philadelphia 76ers. The year before that, it was Ricky Council IV. We also saw players like Keon Ellis and Scotty Pippen Jr. in 2022.
NBA DRAFT GRADES: 2025 NBA Draft first-round grades for each pick
Some of the other notable undrafted free agents we have seen succeed in the league include Fred VanVleet, Austin Reaves, and Jose Alvarado. It is clearly important for front offices to find value on the edges even after the trade has concluded.
Our ranking is based on a consensus big board from our friends at Rookie Scale.
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The Washington Wizards are stockpiling wings — but what's the plan?
It's a question about the 2025-26 Washington Wizards that comes up again and again: Why does the team have so many wings? The answer is interesting — and it cuts to the heart of the Wizards' roster-construction strategy but also to roster construction in the modern NBA. So I'm devoting the latest edition of The Athletic's Wizards mailbag to this topic. I've edited the submitted questions for clarity and to account for roster moves that occurred after the questions were submitted. Advertisement What's with all the wings? The Wizards appear to have five guards (Malaki Branham, Bub Carrington, CJ McCollum, AJ Johnson and Tre Johnson), three bigs (Marvin Bagley III, Alex Sarr and Tristan Vukcevic) and then about nine or so 6-6 to 6-8 guys who play the three (Justin Champagnie, Bilal Coulibaly, Kyshawn George, Khris Middleton, Corey Kispert, Dillon Jones, Will Riley, Jamir Watkins and Cam Whitmore). That seems like a bit of a glut that needs to be addressed by Will Dawkins, no? –Brooke T. I would like to 'second' this question. While we all respect Will Dawkins and Michael Winger, Wizards fans are already starting to fall into a mode where fellow fans can't question their moves, circa the 2020 Nats with Mike Rizzo (but without the championship). I think there are real, hard questions that can be asked about roster construction thus far. The team elected to pass on Khaman Maluach this year (and traded up in the draft last year, but not for a Zach Edey type) and hand the center position to a wiry Alex Sarr who may not be able to rebound his position. While we understand that they can't/shouldn't try to win this year, you also can't develop all these wings at the same time. They already had to ship out Colby Jones for pure roster-spot availability reasons, but how in the heck can these guys all develop at the same time if they all play the same position? They certainly can't all develop on the defensive end, where some of them will be playing out of position just to get minutes. And we all know that five minutes into the season, we will all be complaining about a lack of defense and rebounding. –Malcolm H. I agree that, against the backdrop of traditional NBA roster construction, the Wizards are super-heavy on wings, light on traditional bigs and thin on traditional point guards. I also agree that the 2025-26 Wizards almost certainly will be below-average in terms of defensive rebounding — probably even bottom five. I mean, the team finished last season 27th in defensive-rebounding percentage, and that was with two strong defensive rebounders, Jonas Valančiūnas and Kyle Kuzma, on the roster until the trade deadline. Now, without major offseason additions to shore up the already weak defensive rebounding, it's difficult to envision significant gains in that area. Advertisement But at this stage, positional roster imbalance is not the Wizards' primary concern, or perhaps even their secondary concern. They are attempting to bring as many high-upside players as possible onto their roster — through the draft, through trades, through signings — and do their best to develop those players into upper-level NBA players. Think of it as casting a wide net in an effort to see who, eventually, will stand out. Who will fill the Wizards' No. 1 bucket, that of a franchise cornerstone, someone along the lines of who Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is for Oklahoma City or who Jayson Tatum has been for Boston? Who will fill the No. 2 bucket of someone who isn't quite a franchise cornerstone but contends for All-NBA honors, someone akin to Jalen Williams for Oklahoma City or Jaylen Brown for Boston? And who will fit the No. 3 bucket, like Chet Holmgren for OKC and one of any number of very strong tertiary players for Boston last year? That, in my opinion, is Washington's greatest challenge and ought to be Washington's top priority: finding players who fill those broad roles. This explains why Wizards general manager Will Dawkins always says before every draft that he's looking for the 'best-available player' instead of trying to fill specific positional needs. He's looking for the prospects who have the best chances to fill one of those top-three buckets. So, why did Dawkins decide to draft wing Tre Johnson sixth overall instead of big man Khaman Maluach or anyone else who was still available? Dawkins thought Johnson was the best-available player, the player who has the best chance of becoming an upper-level NBA player. Once the team starts to fill those buckets, it can fill in the rest of the roster around those top-level guys. The roster is not built to win now. Heck, it's more accurate to say that, with a roster skewed so heavily toward youth and inexperience, this roster is built to lose in the short term. I say that without negative overtones. I think the front office did the responsible thing by not making roster moves this offseason to try to eke out a few more victories in 2025-26. As an impartial observer, I think the Wizards need to attempt to win the 2026 lottery to try to draft the franchise-changing player they so desperately need, to try to fill that No. 1 or No. 2 bucket that, for the moment, seems to remain unfilled. If I were in Dawkins' shoes, I'd be willing to sacrifice defensive rebounding this season if it were to help the Wizards land the 2026 draft's top prospect. Washington can use next offseason's ample cap space to shore up its defensive rebounding in free agency or trade for defensive rebounding from its full cupboard of wings and future draft picks. Advertisement The questions you've posed here are more about development, specifically whether the seeming overabundance of wings will inhibit those wings' long-term improvement. The point about the difficulty of the wings developing on defense is well-taken if we assume that some of the Wizards' wings will defend opponents who are either much faster and more agile or much larger and stronger. My conclusion is that all of us — me included — need to acknowledge that the NBA game has changed, and continues to change. Our traditional notions of positional roles don't apply as much as they once did. Because of the prevalence of the 3-point shot and because so many teams play fast on offense, defenders now have to cover more ground than ever before. It's now common for players we don't consider 'point guards' to initiate offenses, and it's now rare for centers on offense to play with their backs to the basket. It's a league increasingly populated by versatile players in the 6-foot-4 to 6-foot-9 range. The distinctions among what shooting guards, small forwards and power forwards are expected to do are murkier than ever before, particularly within switch-oriented defensive schemes. Let's examine the league's reigning champs, the Thunder. When everyone's healthy, the Thunder's starting lineup features a pair of 7-footers, Holmgren, who is ultra versatile, and Isaiah Hartenstein, who is more of a traditional big. A close look reveals that, with Holmgren missing more than half the season with an injury, the Thunder relied heavily on lineups dominated by players we regard as wings. During the regular season, nine of Oklahoma City's 10 most-used five-man lineups included only one big or no big at all. Wings such as Jalen Wiliams, Lu Dort, Cason Wallace, Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe received tons of minutes. Even the Thunder's primary initiator, Gilgeous-Alexander, is 6-foot-6, a height typically associated with that of a wing. And Williams, commonly considered a wing, initiates the Thunder's offense quite a bit. Look, also, at the Celtics' teams of recent years. Yes, Jrue Holiday and Derrick White were referred to as the Celtics' 'point guards,' but in reality, Tatum and Brown were the Celtics' primary creators. My point isn't that the Wizards are trying to become the Thunder or the Celtics. My point is that great teams have versatile players, and that there's no such thing anymore as a player who is solely a small forward. You and I may think of Justin Champagnie, Bilal Coulibaly, Kyshawn George, Khris Middleton, Corey Kispert, Dillon Jones, Will Riley, Jamir Watkins and Cam Whitmore as guys best suited as threes, but in reality, many of them play the two, the three and the four and sometimes the one, with those roles varying by lineup or varying from possession to possession. Advertisement This goes back to one of my biggest pet peeves in the roster-construction punditry space. Pundits apply the guiding principles of NFL roster construction to the NBA, when, in fact, many of those principles are specific to football. 'The game of basketball is so fluid, and positionally things are changing,' Dawkins told me a few days after this year's draft. 'And unlike football, where you're drafting for one position on one side of the field, you have to play both ends of the floor in basketball. So sometimes you're playing one position on offense but you're playing a different type of position on defense, and there's cross-matches and mismatches. So the way the game is going, with the flexibility, the type of players we're drafting gives Coach (Brian) Keefe options. So we're just going to continue to find people who fit our attributes and bring them into our building.' Coulibaly and George are quintessential examples of this. With Coulibaly listed as 6-8 and George listed as 6-7, we'd traditionally consider them as threes. But last season, the Wizards often deployed Coulibaly and George defensively to guard opponents' top offensive initiators — a critical defensive role that, years ago, probably wouldn't have gone to 6-foot-8 or 6-foot-7 players. In the year ahead, I expect the Wizards' lineups to closely resemble the playing groups the Wizards employed during their best 10-game stretch last season, the stretch from Feb. 24 through March 15 in which they went 6-4. Think a three-wing lineup such as Carrington, Coulibaly, George, Middleton and Sarr or AJ Johnson, McCollum, Tre Johnson, Whitmore and either Bagley or Vukcevic. I won't be shocked to see the Wizards sometimes employ lineups of four wings and one big, depending on the opponent. On most nights, the Wizards will face opponents that play just one big at a time. Think Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and Toronto, for instance. So, for the Wizards, employing wing-reliant lineups won't be the issue that will put Washington at a disadvantage. The Wizards will be able to make adjustments to protect themselves defensively against opponents that use lineups with two bigs. Cleveland's Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley would cause problems when they play simultaneously. New York would be tough on nights when Karl-Anthony Towns and Mitchell Robinson play simultaneously. Milwaukee would be a potential nightmare with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Myles Turner. Then again, Cleveland, New York and Milwaukee figure to cause problems for lots of East teams. Advertisement I think Wizards officials would portray having so many wings as an advantage for the players' development, citing how those players will have to compete against each other for playing time. There's some truth to that. Even with three-wing lineups, there will be only a finite number of minutes to go around. There's no question in my mind that, when healthy, and as long as they remain bought-in to the team concept, the highest-upside young players — Coulibaly, George, Tre Johnson and Whitmore — will get their minutes. But finding playing time for deserving players is something that Keefe will have to juggle. How many minutes will McCollum, Middleton, Kispert and Champagnie log each game? Perhaps Middleton will held out for one game of many back-to-backs, a decision that would keep Middleton healthy and would give opportunities for others, including Riley. I don't anticipate Jones or Watkins to play a whole lot, especially early in the season. And remember, with Washington now at 16 players on standard NBA contracts, the team will have to reduce its roster size by one player before the regular season starts. (Top photo of Kyshawn George: Reggie Hildred / Imagn Images) Spot the pattern. Connect the terms Find the hidden link between sports terms Play today's puzzle
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The Basketball 100 podcast's ranking of the NBA's 100 greatest players
You followed along for three-and-a-half months as we revealed our top 75 players in NBA history. Led by veteran columnists David Aldridge and John Hollinger, and with a foreword from Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, we expanded that into a book where we wrote about those 75, and 25 more, to explore the careers of the NBA's greatest 100 players. We also took a different look at the greatest players as well with our G.O.A.T. points metric. Now, you can listen to the six-part podcast featuring The Athletic's NBA staff engage in lively discussions about the top 100 players in NBA history. Hosted by Jared Weiss and featuring Tony Jones and Mike Vorkunov, this episode focuses on Nos. 100-80 in our book. The trio talks about which players have brought the most joy, recounts the players that people may not know well, and discusses which players are too high and too low. The story of the greatest players in NBA history. 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Advertisement Read the story One day in the spring of 2018, a Philadelphia 76ers assistant named Billy Lange looked at his phone and saw a text message from Joel Embiid: 'I want to pray.' It was a Sunday in April. The NBA playoffs were a week old. It was not the usual afternoon greeting from an NBA star, but then again, there was nothing usual about Joel Embiid. At that point, he was just 24 years old, a 7-foot behemoth who had feet like a ballet dancer and the droll wit of a stand-up comic. He had grown up an ocean away in Cameroon, the well-to-do son of a military colonel, and he had not played the sport of basketball until he was a teenager. When he considered his life story, he sometimes believed it to be something out of a movie, a surreal Hollywood dream. But here he was, in the middle of the NBA playoffs, wearing a clunky mask to protect a broken orbital bone near his left eye. Lange sensed he was nervous. Maybe even scared. 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The Red Sox were hosting the Toronto Blue Jays and we settled into our seats near the top of a section above the third-base dugout, ready for a momentous occasion for a sports-crazy kid who begged his parents to sprinkle some games into the history and sightseeing. As I sat down and marveled at the Green Monster in front of me, I couldn't help but pull out a Sony Walkman, put the headphones over my ears, and start listening as intently as I was watching. It wasn't the radio broadcast of the game but coverage of the 1995 NBA Draft. My hometown Minnesota Timberwolves had the fifth pick, and there were so many intriguing possibilities in a class filled with household names. Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace from North Carolina. Damon Stoudamire from Arizona. Michigan State's Shawn Respert and UCLA's Ed O'Bannon. All were players I watched on television at storied college programs who became well-known stars with tantalizing potential. There was another name out there I had never seen take one dribble, but he grabbed my attention as much as any other. In the week leading up to the draft, I pulled Sports Illustrated out of the mailbox to see a skinny high school kid on the cover with the tagline 'Ready or Not … ' Advertisement Read the story You can't blame Michael Cooper for making one of the first recorded business decisions. On January 5, 1983, Cooper — who would go on to become an eight-time NBA All-Defensive Team selection and the 1986-87 NBA Defensive Player of the Year — and his Los Angeles Lakers were in Philadelphia to meet the 76ers, whom they'd vanquished in the previous season's NBA Finals. Big game, big implications. The game, as befitting two of the league's titans, went to overtime. In the extra session, James Worthy attempted a pass to Jamaal Wilkes, the Lakers' silky small forward. But Philly's Maurice Cheeks deflected the pass, and the ball bounced away from Wilkes and to Cooper near midcourt. Except Julius Erving got to the ball first, cutting in front of Cooper. Two dribbles later, Erving was just inside the free-throw line extended. Cooper, though, was timing his steps to be able to contest a drive-by Erving. Michael Cooper, being Michael Cooper — the man Larry Bird would later say was the best defender he'd ever faced—could still get to this shot. Maybe block it. At the least, he could challenge it. Read the story It was a contradiction of the image he so meticulously cultivated. Yet it was an authentic glimpse of the driving force inside him. Psycho Steph Curry. The alter ego that has elevated him to unimaginable heights, landing him a seat at the table of basketball's all-time best. And on the hallowed parquet of Boston, under the Celtics' 17 banners, it emerged in Game 6 of the 2022 NBA Finals to punctuate his legend. With the Warriors up 19, Draymond Green sped up the court on a fast break. Curry was trailing the play before veering left into Green's periphery. Green bounced a pass to his left, angling it so Curry could catch it in stride. But Curry didn't scoop up the pass and keep going toward the rim. Nor did he pass the ball to an open teammate while the Celtics' defense was scattered. Curry was in psycho mode. So he pulled up right where he caught it. The official NBA box score says it was 29 feet. Inside TD Garden, it felt like 50. It was so sudden. So far. So unnecessary. Curry's momentum caused him to lean forward on the pull-up 3, giving it a shotput feel. It sliced through the anxious gasp of Celtics fans before thumping the back of the rim as it went through, putting the Warriors up 22. The net barely moved. Advertisement Read the story He's lovable. The 7-foot-1 teddy bear with the animated general selling auto insurance. He's on the cover of Frosted Flakes and is a pizza pitchman with an executive role at Papa John's. You might be able to relate to him if you treat your back pain with Icy Hot. He has gold (Gold Bond and an Olympic medal), and don't forget about the weekly back-and-forths with Charles Barkley on TNT's Inside the NBA. Shaquille O'Neal may be retired from the NBA, but he is everywhere. For a certain generation, it's hard to imagine O'Neal as one of the greatest basketball players ever. But the playful big man was a punishing athlete who didn't just dunk. 'The Diesel' dunked through opponents, leaving bodies and broken backboards in his wake. And not just backboards, as Darryl Dawkins did, but whole stanchions. He did it while having fun and while intimidating opposing big men. Read the story Four thousand, one hundred twenty-four. Of all the numbers associated with Wilt Chamberlain's eventful, incredible 63 years, that number — 4,124 — is among the most significant. That's the number of people who were, allegedly, at what was then the Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on March 2, 1962, to witness the NBA game that night between Chamberlain's Philadelphia Warriors and the New York Knicks. It's more likely there were far fewer people there, given the, let's say, creative ways in which attendance for games in the still-fledgling-at-the-time NBA was often tabulated. The game was not televised. Only a grainy recording of the fourth quarter of the radio broadcast, by WCAU's Bill Campbell, was preserved. None of the Knicks beat writers made the trip; only a couple came from Philly, about 95 miles southeast of town, so meaningless an assignment it was believed to be. But Hershey was a regular stop on the NBA circuit in those days, as teams barnstormed nearby towns to drum up regional support. Two hours later, Chamberlain had set the mark that best defined his lifetime of association with prodigiousness. He became the first and only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a contest. Advertisement Read the story The morning after one of the most miserable nights of his career, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the first to arrive at the film session. He sat in the front row, center chair, right in front of the television. It was an odd seat selection, and not just because this 7-foot-2 giant was now blocking the view. It was an area usually left vacant during these tape studies, but Abdul-Jabbar was about to be a witness to his execution. Los Angeles Lakers coach Pat Riley began scribbling points of emphasis on the board. Rebound. Stop Bird. Don't double too early. Then Riley locked eyes with Kareem. 'I'll never forget this. He didn't say it to me, but I know what he was thinking: Don't hold back on me today,' Riley said. Read the story (Illustration: John Bradford / The Athletic) Spot the pattern. Connect the terms Find the hidden link between sports terms Play today's puzzle
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Today in Boston Celtics history: Barros signs, Brickowski, Atkins, Roberts, Kabengele born
Today in Boston Celtics history, point guard Dana Barros signed with the Celtics in 2004. It would be the last stop of his NBA career, one that spanned 14 seasons in total. It was not Barros first time playing with the Celtics, either, with the Boston College alum having previously suited up for the team for five seasons between 1995 and 2000. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Barros would leave his hometown school to join the NBA when he was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 16th overall pick of the 1989 NBA draft. He would play for the Sonics and the Philadelphia 76ers before signing with Boston for the first time in 1995, and left the team when he was dealt to Dallas Mavericks in 2000. His second stint was much shorter, with Barros getting dealt to the Detroit Pistons just two months after signing with Boston for a second time. Birthdays It is the birthday of ex-Boston big man Frank Brickowski, born this day in 1959 in Bayville, New York. An alum of Penn State, Brickowski would also play for the Supersonics, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, and Charlotte Hornets before signing as a free agent with the Celtics in 1996. He averaged 4.8 points and 2 rebounds per game with the Celtics, retiring at the end of the 1996-97 season. Former Celtic point guard Chucky Atkins shares the birthday with Brickowski, born in 1974 in Orlando, Florida. Atkins played his NCAA ball at the University of South Florida and would play for the Orlando Magic and the Pistons before coming to Boston in a trade with Detroit. Atkins was with the Celtics for 24 games of the 2003-04 season, averaging 12 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game while with Boston. It is also the birthday of Boston big Fred Roberts, born in Provo, Utah, this day in 1960. A BYU alum, Roberts played for the Spurs and Utah Jazz, who traded him to the Celtics, where he would play two seasons. He averaged 5.8 points, 2.4 rebounds, and an assist per game with the team before being drafted by the Miami Heat in the 1988 NBA expansion draft. The pair share their birthday with former Celtics two way big man Mfiondu Kabengele. Born this day in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in 1997, Kabengele would play his NCAA ball for Florida State, and be drafted by the Brooklyn Nets with the 27th pick of the 2019 NBA draft before he was dealt to the Los Angeles Clippers. After playing short stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers and in the G League, the Canadian joined the Maine Celtics after a strong summer league. Rest in Peace It is also the day former Celtics guard Jack 'Dutch' Garfinkel passed away in 2013. An alum of St. John's University, Garfinkle would play in the rival American Basketball League (ABL) and National Basketball League (NBL — not to be confused with today's Australian league) before joining Boston in its inaugural campaign of 1946-47. He averaged 5.2 points and 1.5 assists per game while with the Celtics.
