The 2022 NBA Draft is set to be a unique one. There’s a clear-cut top tier, but even the upper echelon of prospects doesn’t have a frontrunner nor is there a surefire franchise cornerstone in this year’s class. Instead, the cream of the crop features four promising hopeful future All-Stars that each has at least one glaring weakness.
After the top four is a small grouping of players with towering potential but also low floors in AJ Griffin, Jalen Duren, and Shaedon Sharpe. After that level comes a handful of prospects who project to be contributors from day one — high-floor, low-ceiling types who could impact a team from the jump but probably won’t turn out to be much more than high-level role players.
There are a few projects mixed into this group that starts halfway through the lottery and carries on into the early part of the second round.
Johnny Davis is a unique prospect in a unique draft class. He doesn’t quite have the draw of the consensus top seven in this class, but he’s not a project or a low-ceiling future role player either.
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While he doesn’t have the same star potential as the Griffin-Duren-Sharpe grouping, Davis does offer the promise to become much more than just a high-level starter someday. Although his ceiling is higher than most in his class, he also has the tools to contribute from the first tip of his rookie season.
He’s not without his drawbacks, though, which will keep him out of the top two tiers in this year’s draft. His blend of potential, win-now abilities, and weaknesses, along with the fact that he plays in the NBA’s deepest position group, give him a wide range of potential landing spots.
Where he lands will also have a tremendous impact on how he fares in his early career. Here are the threebest potential landing spots for Johnny Davis: