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This year's draft is very deep, and projections for Okorie have been late 1st round to early 2nd round.  Now, maybe he improves his stock in workouts or a team takes a chance on him earlier than projected, but next year's draft is said to be quite weak in comparison. It might make a lot of sense to come back for another year, take some NIL money and try to get a better rookie contract next year.  

At least that's MY dream.

I agree.  Also, I think that Okorie could use another year at Stanford to work on his defense (it certainly wasn't bad this year but it wasn't great either) and his finishing on all those layup attempts (he was 56% on "close" FG attempts, which is near average in the NCAA).  Another year of polishing, and he could surely be a lottery pick instead of a fringe first-rounder at best.

[burger]

This year's draft is very deep, and projections for Okorie have been late 1st round to early 2nd round.  Now, maybe he improves his stock in workouts or a team takes a chance on him earlier than projected, but next year's draft is said to be quite weak in comparison. It might make a lot of sense to come back for another year, take some NIL money and try to get a better rookie contract next year.  

At least that's MY dream.

I agree.  Also, I think that Okorie could use another year at Stanford to work on his defense (it certainly wasn't bad this year but it wasn't great either) and his finishing on all those layup attempts (he was 56% on "close" FG attempts, which is near average in the NCAA).  Another year of polishing, and he could surely be a lottery pick instead of a fringe first-rounder at best.