Clemson basketball has lost plenty of talent to both the transfer portal and the NBA Draft this offseason but Brad Brownell and Co. didn't have a single player selected in 2025.
Shortly after the draft, Chase Hunter signed an Exhibition-10 contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, but Viktor Lakhin surprisingly remains unsigned despite being projected as a second-round pick. This raises potential concerns over his injury directly following the regular season.
Clemson has sent several players to the NBA under Brownell with the most recent being Hunter Tyson in 2023 as a second-round pick by the Denver Nuggets. He's still trying to carve out a role with the Nuggets but he showed more promise in his second season.
Jaron Blossomgame was the last pick before that in 2017 and, like I said earlier, Lakhin was supposed to be this year's representative on Clemson's all-time draft picks list, but he slipped through the cracks.
Now, he remains one of two top-100 prospects in the 2025 NBA Draft class yet to have signed a contract with a team. Really surprising stuff there.
So what's the outlook for Clemson's 2026 NBA Draft class? Well, it looks like the Tigers will go a third straight season without a draft pick as every NBA mock draft that I've found from Bleacher Report, to Tankathon, to ESPN, to CBS Sports has exactly zero projected picks in either round next year.
This isn't a huge surprise as Clemson landed a lot of underclassmen in the portal as well as some vets who have yet to truly break out on the big stage. However, I could see Jestin Porter and Nick Davidson playing themselves into picks in next year's draft and I wouldn't count out a couple of other guys as well. Those are my two Tigers to watch.
Right now, though, this team is filled with underdogs.