Everybody in the room felt a huge void. It didnt have the same energy." Neil Olshey talks about going through the team's first draft since the passing of Paul Allen.

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

Bleacher Report 2026 NBA Draft prospects talk about their first LeBron James memory

Givony This draft isn't as deep or historic as some have made it out to be And NIL could do a real number on the back half of the first round with the NCAA withdrawal deadline coming up May 27

Kenny Atkinson praised the owner saying Dan Gilbert enlightened him by prophetically reminding him that Jarrett Allen is the key to everything

The Spurs announcer asks for a moment of silence for the recent passing of Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins NBC inexplicably faded to black then cut to commercial in the middle of the moment a DraftKngs commercial played on the broadcast

Sam Presti In this job as a leader what you want to do is build teams that you wish you could have been a part of and I feel that way about this era of the Thunder