{"id":484666,"date":"2026-02-20T14:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=484666"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:54:22","slug":"2026-nba-draft-executive-says-no-1-pick-would-be-worth-100m-in-an-open-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/2026-nba-draft-executive-says-no-1-pick-would-be-worth-100m-in-an-open-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Draft: executive says No. 1 pick would be worth $100M in an open auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1624\" data-end=\"1942\">Top draft picks have always carried massive value because of the expected talent and the cost control of the rookie scale contract, but the <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1782\">2026 NBA Draft<\/strong> is being framed as especially intense. <strong data-start=\"1822\" data-end=\"1841\">Darryn Peterson<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1843\" data-end=\"1858\">AJ Dybantsa<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1881\">Cameron Boozer<\/strong> are cited as potential franchise-level prospects at the top.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"2286\">On <em data-start=\"1947\" data-end=\"1968\">The Hoop Collective<\/em> podcast, <strong data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"1997\">Brian Windhorst<\/strong> said he spoke with a league executive in the wake of big recent performances, including Peterson\u2019s 23 points in 18 minutes. In the discussion with <strong data-start=\"2145\" data-end=\"2161\">Tim MacMahon<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2163\" data-end=\"2181\">Darius Acuff\u2019s<\/strong> 49-point game is mentioned as well, though his projection varies outside the top three in some rankings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2288\" data-end=\"2576\">The headline claim: the executive told Windhorst the <strong data-start=\"2341\" data-end=\"2377\">No. 1 pick is worth $100 million<\/strong>\u2014and that teams would pay that figure if they could buy it outright. Windhorst adds that perspective while noting the broader tanking conversation, referencing the <strong data-start=\"2541\" data-end=\"2554\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> being fined $500,000.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1404\"><em data-start=\"1259\" data-end=\"1339\">Fonte: ESPN \u2013 Brian Windhorst, The Hoop Collective (ripreso da RealGM Wiretap)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft NBA 2026, un dirigente: la prima scelta varrebbe 100 milioni in un\u2019asta aperta<br \/>\nWindhorst riporta la stima emersa tra gli addetti ai lavori: la corsa al n.1 cresce con Peterson, Dybantsa e Boozer in cima ai radar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-484666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484666"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=484666"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=484666"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=484666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}