{"id":67616,"date":"2025-06-26T14:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=67616"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T13:40:48","slug":"ryan-kalkbrenner-2025-nba-draft-projection-what-draft-pick-will-be-ryan-kalkbrenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/ryan-kalkbrenner-2025-nba-draft-projection-what-draft-pick-will-be-ryan-kalkbrenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Kalkbrenner Draft Projection- Where is Four-Time Big East Defensive Player of the Year Expected to Land in 2025 NBA Draft?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Kalkbrenner, a four-star recruit, is expected to be a top pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. He started his basketball journey at Trinity Catholic High School in St. Louis in Missouri. As a junior, he averaged 13.9 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 3.9 blocks per game and earned the AAA Player of the Year as well as Class 3 All-State honors. He competed for Mac Irvin Fire of the Amateur Athletic Union circuit. In addition, he was named Nike Elite Youth Basketball League Defensive of the Year in 2019.&nbsp;<\/p><p>In the freshman season of his collegiate career, Kalkrbrenner earned Honorable Mention All-Big East as well as Defensive Player of the Year. The 7-foot-one was named the 2024-25 Big East Conference Preseason Player of the Year. His career-high score of 49 points came in a win over the UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros in November 2024.&nbsp;<\/p><p>After spending five seasons at Creighton, he finished his collegiate career with an average of 14.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game.&nbsp;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Think this remains one of my favorite draft prospect clips of the year from 7-1 center Ryan Kalkbrenner. Legit think I pulled off my glasses and wiped them off while watching live.<br><br>Straight pump fake into attacking a closeout with a one-hand gather and finger roll finish lol. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OPp4bK3i9G\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/OPp4bK3i9G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sam Vecenie (@Sam_Vecenie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sam_Vecenie\/status\/1925162295740747811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>May 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ryan Kalkbrenner Scouting Report- Strengths and Weaknesses&nbsp;<\/h2><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengths-&nbsp;<\/h3><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The 23-year-old has emerged as a reliable finisher, who has time and again thrived on lobs, putbacks, and drop-offs.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He is extremely well with his catching skills, and he is known to catch every pass. With his explosive vertical, Kalbrenner has emerged as a constant threat to dunk the ball.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Having spent five years as a collegiate player, Kalbrenner will enter the NBA as a veteran with immense experience and strong senses.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kalkbrenner made more than 30% of his threes at Creighton, which proves him as a low-volume 3-point shooter.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>His 7-foot-6 wingspan makes him one of the best shot-blockers in college basketball.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weaknesses-&nbsp;<\/h3><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ryan Kalkbrenner is known for his high dependence on teammates to set him up. His lack of an advanced post game.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He is not a high leaper which makes it difficult to recover or impact shots after being pulled out of position.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He lacks natural passing as well as playmaking skills, and his average of 1.3 assists per game in his entire college career is a strong testament to it.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ryan Kalkbrenner Stats and Accomplishments&nbsp;<\/h2><p>The Florissant-native finished his final year in college with an average of 19.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.5 assists per game.&nbsp;<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He earned Second-Team All-American- USBWA, NABC honors in 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kalkbrenner won the Big East Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore, and went on to win it three more times.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition to it, he earned All-Big East Honorable Mention as a sophomore.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In his junior year, the 23-year-old was named to the All-Big East First Team and was an AP All-American Honorable Mention.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following his senior season, he once again received All-American Honorable Mention and made All-Big East Second Team, plus was part of the Hall of Fame Classic All-Tournament Team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>During his second senior year, he won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award. In addition, he was also named AP All-American Third Team and was voted the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ryan Kalkbrenner Draft Projection<\/h2><p>Ryan Kalkbrenner is a four-time Big East Defensive Player of the Year, and is known as an excellent paint defender and shot-blocker. A prototypical big man on offense, he is expected to be a safe late first-round pick or an early second-round pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which team will pick Ryan Kalkbrenner in 2025 NBA Draft?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":67617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5774,8060],"class_list":["post-67616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-2025-nba-draft","tag-ryan-kalkbrenner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ryan Kalkbrenner Draft Projection- Where is Four-Time Big East Defensive Player of the Year Expected to Land in 2025 NBA Draft?&nbsp; - 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