Since he likes Philadelphia, he will go, and be instantly rich, and play basketball with a young and talented team that's already set a record for season-ticket sales, and hardly anyone will think anything of it.
Outsiders might find it premature for fans to be so gaga over a club that won 28 games last season and just 75 combined over the previous four seasons. "Not from my family.But even more than that, I was like, They must not really know the real me", wrote Fultz.
The two Sixers teammates were obviously referring to LaVar Ball and his son, Lonzo, who went second overall to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The choice of Fultz fits in nicely with Philadelphia's rebuilding program. 1 pick, it appeared likely that Fultz was going to the Boston Celtics. The Sixers landed Fultz after trading the No. 3 overall pick, along with a future first-round pick, to the Boston Celtics for the top selection.
"And", Fultz said, "I've been texting him through the college process, and just getting advice through college and just wishing him good luck".
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Meanwhile, Marin Cilic set up a semi-final clash with Gilles Muller at Queen's Club as the Croatian powered to a 6-4 7-5 victory over Donald Young.
Fultz averaged 23.2 points last season at Washington, tops among freshmen, and added 5.9 assists and 5.7 rebounds per game, the only Division I player to reach those stats. To think that you're going to go into a season with a 19 year old (Fultz), a 20 year old (Simmons) and Joel Embiid, as much as we love him and see how special he is, the reality is those three players have played a cumulative 31 National Basketball Association games.
For the record, Brown said the addition of Fultz "really doesn't" change his plan. He did not make the varsity at DeMatha Catholic in Hyattsville, Md. until he grew from 5-9 to 6-3 in the summer between his sophomore and junior years. The Timberwolves struggled last season, but have a very promising young core in Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins. But Joel Embiid was the only athlete to get two of the top-15 most RT'd tweets. Certainly, the ball would hop around if he were on the court with Fultz and Simmons, but Saric could also serve as the distributor for a potentially interesting bench mob (Jerryd Bayless, Richaun Holmes, et al.).
Next up was the New York Knicks continuing to show how dysfunctional this front office has become. Some may say this pick can be controversial as scouts and experts believed that with Lonzo comes his loud, obnoxious, highly opinionated father, LaVar. The Suns picked fourth for the second straight year and selected Josh Jackson from Kansas.
Despite averaging 20.2 points and 7.8 rebounds, Embiid's 2016-17 campaign was cut short by a torn meniscus in his knee. Those are lottery pick tools, but he wound up being selected with the 47th pick in the draft. The Kings' first pick at number five was guard De'Aaron Fox of Kentucky and they selected Zach Collins of Gonzaga at No. 10 with the pick obtained from New Orleans for DeMarcus Cousins.
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