The NBA Draft will take place this week in Brooklyn (first round Wednesday 8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN, second round Thursday 8 p.m. ET, ESPN), and after strong seasons with the Michigan men's basketball team, forward Danny Wolf and center Vlad Goldin are both expected to hear their names called in the two-round event.
That was reflected in **[ESPN's latest and final two-round mock draft](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45559441/2025-nba-mock-draft-latest-first-second-round-predictions-all-59-picks)**, released earlier this week. The two 7-footers combined for nearly 30 points and 17 rebounds per game in their lone seasons in Ann Arbor, helping the Wolverines improve their win total by 19 victories, capturing a Big Ten Tournament title and making a Sweet Sixteen appearance.
Now, ESPN projects Wolf to be a first-round pick, and Goldin to go in Thursday's second round. The publication predicted Wolf to go 18th overall, to the Washington Wizards.
"Wolf has one of the wider ranges in the first round, with interest from several teams in the back half of the lottery as well as several potential landing spots in the top 20, including Memphis, Minnesota and Brooklyn," ESPN wrote. "Washington is another team that could take a chance on him, with his playmaking ability at 7 feet a particularly intriguing experiment on a team that would have minutes to offer him immediately.
"Wolf's uncommon mix of size and skill set has been a polarizing evaluation for many around the NBA, but he has received strong reviews in private workouts, which has seemingly helped to stabilize his draft status."
After two productive seasons at Yale, including making first-team All-Ivy League as a sophomore, Wolf transferred to his childhood favorite program, Michigan. He joined a loaded frontcourt that also included Goldin, and spent the summer transitioning to a power forward role so the duo could both be on the court at the same time.
As Wolf made the transition, excitement grew inside the program that Wolf could be a draft-caliber prospect, and that manifested in a strong junior season. He tied for the Big Ten lead with 15 double-doubles, and was the only player 6-foot-10 or taller to average at least 13.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game in a season. He led the Big Ten in rebounds, while shooting 49.7 percent from the field, including 32.8 percent from 3 on 113 attempts.
He was named second-team All-Big Ten by media and coaches, first team by the AP, and was named to the Big Ten's all-tournament team after averaging 15.7 points, 11.0 rebounds and 3.7 assists in wins over Purdue, Maryland and Wisconsin to lead Michigan to the tournament crown. Shortly after helping lead Michigan to a Sweet Sixteen berth and scoring 20 points in the Wolverines' season-ending loss, Wolf declared for the NBA Draft.
Goldin has rarely been projected to be drafted in the first round, but appears to have solidified his second-round draft stock throughout the draft process. That was reflected in ESPN projecting him to go 49th overall to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
After three increasingly productive seasons at Florida Atlantic, Goldin followed Dusty May to Michigan for his fifth and final collegiate season. Given his track record, expectations were high for Goldin to be among the Big Ten's best centers, and he lived up to that billing. He led the Wolverines with 16.6 points per game (3.4 more per game than the next-highest scorer), and failed to score in double figures in just two of Michigan's final 30 games, compared to 13 games with at least 20 points in that stretch.
He finished fifth in the Big Ten in points, seventh in rebounds, fifth in blocks, second in field-goal percentage (60.7 percent) and first in true shooting percentage (65.4 percent). After not attempting a single 3-pointer in his first four seasons, he went 11 for 33 from 3-point range, and shot a career-high 73.1 percent from the free-throw line.
For his efforts, he was named first-team All-Big Ten by the media, and second-team All-Big Ten by coaches and the AP. He was also named the Most Outstanding Player at the Big Ten Tournament, after averaging 17.0 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game in wins over Purdue, Maryland and Wisconsin, as Michigan won the title.
Though Goldin had plenty of statistically strong games, his 23-point, 12-rebound, 3-block game against Texas A&M was a difference-maker in the Wolverines' second-round NCAA Tournament win.