Only two seniors went in the first round - the lowest number in the modern history of the draft.
The Boston Celtics made the first move of this year's National Basketball Association draft days before it began when they traded the No. 1 overall pick to Philadelphia in a move to add to an already rich cache of future selections.
The player Danny Ainge felt comfortable enough to surrender the first overall pick to get talked Wednesday about being anxious with all the uncertainty.
The Hawks, as of this morning at least, have three picks on tonight's NBA Draft - Nos.
If they stick here and Porzingis is still a Knick, Ntilikina feels like a fine fit from a talent perspective.
(2) These grades aren't exclusively based on a team's ability to pick players.
Embiid welcomed Fultz to Philly with a tweet - what else? - where he proclaimed the new nickname was FEDS: Fultz, Embiid, Dario, Simmons. At 6-foot-4, Fultz is an elite athlete and often scored at Washington by blowing past slower defenders or shooting over the top of any smaller ones. While the 76ers have considered starting Simmons as a point forward in the past, the opportunity to snag a potential franchise cornerstone in Fultz was too good to pass up.
Strengths • Markkanen has shown he is a strong shooter, making 49 percent overall, 42 percent from 3-point range and almost 84 percent at the line. Most of the players in the top-10 range could see their names anywhere from No. 4-10, or even fall into the late lottery if things go poorly. And he couldn't elevate the Huskies to more than nine wins in a rough season. He averaged 12 points, 7.8 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.5 blocks per game as a freshman. But will he be happy anywhere other than Los Angeles?
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Ball, expected to be selected No. 2 to the Los Angeles Lakers, wore an all-black suit - as did his father, LaVar, who sat with his family at a table near the stage.
The 6-3 Fox has a terrific first step and opencourt speed, making him hard to stop either in transition or off the dribble.
Mitchell scored 15.4 points per game for the Cardinals previous year while shooting 35 percent from three point land and averaging 4.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists. Along the way, Fox put on a dominating show against fellow star rookie point guard Lonzo Ball of UCLA. He averaged 12 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks on a deep Seminoles team, shooting almost 51 percent overall and 78 percent from the line. He also shot almost 37 percent from 3-point range. He also will need to get stronger.
Meanwhile with their 36th pick, the 76ers chose Australian Jonah Bolden, the son of Bruce Bolden, who played in the NBL for 17 years.
"In high school I told my trainer Keith I wanted to be the No. 1 player in the country and the No. 1 draft pick, so it was a goal I set out there, and that's what I was striving for", Fultz said.
Smith often didn't elevate his teammates' play and there were questions about his consistent defensive effort.
Now for the bad part: The French native, whose team is still playing in a championship series back home, was selected by the Knicks on Thursday night.
There's also a tantalizing global talent in Ntilikina (pronounced Nee-lee-KEE-na), a 6-5 guard playing for Strasbourg in a French pro league.
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