Frank Urbina of HoopsHype has issued a re-draft of the 2022 NBA Draft class. Just three years later, one Portland Trail Blazers player falls in the revised order and another goes up… way up.
Shaedon Sharpe was drafted by the Blazers with the seventh pick of the 2022 draft. The now-22-year-old from London, Ontario, was a one-and-done from the University of Kentucky, sort of (he declared for the draft after a redshirt season and never played a college game). In the re-draft, Sharpe falls six spots, dropping from No. 7 to No. 13. The new spot puts him behind players like Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler (No. 12 in the redraft), Indiana Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard (No. 10), and Denver Nuggets wing Christian Braun (No. 8).
Urbina writes:
A solid scoring guard who can get buckets, albeit not all that efficiently, Shaedon Sharpe has a lot of promise due to his off-the-dribble scoring and explosiveness around the basket. Whether Sharpe can improve his efficiency will determine his level as a player over the coming years.
Blazers forward Jabari Walker, on the other hand, makes a tremendous rise in the re-draft. Walker was drafted with the 57th pick by Portland out of the University of Colorado. In the re-draft, Walker soars into the 25th pick.
Urbina’s thoughts:
Coming off his best season shooting the ball, Jabari Walker is another solid 3-and-D wing out of the 2022 class, one who just shot nearly 39 percent from three in ’25. Considering he almost went undrafted, the fact Walker is an almost every-night player in the NBA is quite the feat for the former Colorado Buff.
Three players who made the top 30 in the re-draft, Scotty Pippen Jr., Keon Ellis, and Julian Champagnie, went undrafted in 2022. Of the players actually drafted in 2022, Walker improved the most spots in the re-draft.
In a reminder of how uncertain the draft can be, nine players drafted in the first round in 2022 do not make the cut for the re-draft top 30. Somewhat ominously that includes the player originally drafted at No. 11, Ousmane Dieng.
