Guard Boogie Fland, who entered the 2025 NBA draft pool following his freshman year at Arkansas, has decided to withdraw his name from this year’s list of early entrants, agent Mike Miller told Jonathan Givony of ESPN (story via ESPN’s Jeff Borzello).
Fland, the No. 42 prospect on ESPN’s big board of 2025 prospects, had been in attendance at this week’s draft combine in Chicago but won’t take part in the rest of the event. Instead, he’ll shift his focus to the NCAA transfer portal, which he entered earlier this spring while testing the draft waters.
According to Borzello, there has been “significant buzz” about the possibility of Fland transferring to Florida for his sophomore season. A strong showing at the college level in 2025/26 could improve his standing for the 2026 NBA draft if he decides to declare as an early entrant again next spring.
Here are a few more draft-related notes:
- In another story for ESPN.com, Givony, Jeremy Woo, and Jeff Borzello share their draft combine takeaways from Tuesday, identifying Yaxel Lendeborg, Drake Powell, Chaz Lanier, Mark Sears, and Tre Johnson as some of the day-one standouts while noting that Cedric Coward is generating some buzz among NBA personnel as a potential first-round pick. Coward is currently at No. 35 on ESPN’s board.
- Duke’s Kon Knueppel, a projected lottery pick, didn’t take part in the athletic testing or shooting drills at the combine beacuse he sprained his ankle a few weeks ago and is “not all the way back yet,” agent Mark Bartelstein tells Givony (Twitter link). “He’s at 85% now and we want him at 100%,” Bartelstein said. “He’s really close. Hopefully, he’s back by the end of the week and can participate in our pro day Friday.” As Givony points out, the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement requires Knueppel to complete the athletic testing and shooting drills at a later date at a team facility.
- Serbian prospect Bogoljub Markovic, who was forced to miss the draft combine because he was still playing for Mega Basket, recently sprained his ankle, which will sideline him for the quarterfinals of the ABA League playoffs, per Givony (Twitter links). However, Markovic still intends to attend the European combine in Treviso in early June and then travel stateside to work out for NBA teams ahead of the draft.
Cedric Coward is my kind of player. Versatile, long, tough. Id love for him to drop to my Hawks at 22 but I wouldn’t be mad at all if we take him at 13.
Boogie was a lottery pick preseason. He would still go in first rd this yr. With NIL he probably can make more by transferring to a top 10 team. Then be a top ten pick next year. So I definitely get him. Great for players to have these options today. I see a lot of Garland in Boggie. NYC PGs are one of a kind. Don’t know much about Florida. I assume he wants to go where he can make the Final 4 next year.
Egor Demin is a solid prospect at the SF imo. He is a big kid with a handle and vision. I see big upside for him. I think he could move into top 10. Russians are tough players. Not a soft euro here.
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