Koby Brea 2025 NBA Draft Profile

Koby Brea 2025 NBA Draft Profile

We are less than three weeks away from the 2025 NBA Draft! Today, we will be previewing Kentucky’s Koby Brea, one of the best shooters in this year’s class! Let’s not waste any more time and jump right into it!

Height (no shoes): 6’5.75 (6’5.25 wingspan, 8’5.5 standing reach)

Weight: 201.8

Draft Age: 22.6

Position: Guard

Brea was a zero-star recruit out of Monsignor Scanlan High School in Bronx, N.Y. In high school, he averaged 20.8 points and 5.2 assists as a senior and represented the Dominican Republic in the U-17 FIBA Centrobasket Championships in 2019, averaging 9.2 points and 4.6 rebounds in five games.

Brea eventually committed to Dayton, becoming one of the most lethal shooters in the country. He eventually transferred to Kentucky after four seasons with Dayton, averaging 11.6 points and 3.2 rebounds on 63.6 percent true shooting. Let’s examine his profiles, shall we!

Strengths:

You can make a cogent argument that Brea is the best shooter in the 2025 class.

The two-time A-10 Sixth Man of the Year led the nation in 3-point percentage as a redshirt junior at 49.8 percent on an absurd 12.9 triple tries per game, the best since Ohio State’s Jon Diebler shot 50.2 percent from deep in 2010-11 (min. 200 3PA). He followed up by leading the SEC in 3-point shooting at 43.5 percent on 11.7 attempts, the ninth-best mark in the country.

He’s a certified sniper. Every shot he shoots I think is going in. He doesn’t need a lot of airspace to get his shot off, and his high release at 6-foot-7 makes it a a difficult shot to block. He’s got perfect form, always rising up with his elbow in and body squared toward the basket. He’s almost never off-balance, though the majority of Brea’s 3-point attempts were spot-up looks.

Brea has fairly good lift and with good balance and footwork off movement. He’s not afraid to use shot fakes followed by one or two sidestep dribbles to create an open window for himself if there’s a hard closeout. Defenses did their best to run him off the 3-point line, but they often compromised themselves in the process.

He’s got good positional size at 6-foot-7, 202 pounds. Considering he’s specialized in an off-ball sharpshooting role his whole career, Brea knows how to play off screens as well as anyone in this class.

Weaknesses:

Brea is not a good athlete–it showed both on the combine and on tape. He’s slow-footed for a guard who projects to be a 2/3 at the next level. Brea was a below-average defender in college–and that’s not for a lack of effort. He wasn’t agile enough to stay in front of most players, and his negative wingspan plus below-average standing reach made it difficult for him to generate deflections.

The effort was there, the production nor the impact wasn’t, which is an issue.

While I believe there’s some two-level scoring upside, he didn’t show it enough. Brea projects to be a one-trick pony unless he seriously develops other parts of his game. He had a slightly below-average handle and never took more than 2-3 dribbles on most possessions before making decisions.

His calling card was obviously to shoot; he was good around the rim (76.4 percent) with adequate mid-range touch, but those two parts of his game barely made up for 30 percent of his shot diet as a senior. Brea’s capable of pulling up into a 17-footer or potentially taking it to the rack, but those two features weren’t consistent enough to make me believe those will immediately translate.

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Projection: Second Round

Koby Brea is excellent at one singular skill, one of the most important skills to be good at in the modern NBA. There’s a role for him somewhere, but he must improve some of his shortcomings so he’s not overly liable or predictable. Teams need shooters. He can improve his foot speed. He can improve his handle. As long as he falls into a situation where they allow him to do what he does best, I think there’s a place for him in the NBA.

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