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The Detroit Pistons selected Oklahoma State do-it-all guard Cade Cunningham with the top pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, and the next few picks went chalk.
But that wasn’t the biggest news on draft day.
The Los Angeles Lakers preceded the first overall pick by agreeing to trade Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Kyle Kuzma and Montrezl Harrell to the Wizards, reported The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Additionally Washington dealt a 2024 second-round pick and a 2028 second-round pick to Los Angeles. The Lakers send the No. 22 overall pick to the Wizards in the trade.
Before that, the Phoenix Suns traded their only draft pick at No. 29 overall, plus guard Jevon Carter, to the Brooklyn Nets to acquire three-point specialist Landry Shamet.
Below, we’ll run through the draft picks on Thursday with notes about any surprises, trades or news.
2021 NBA Draft results
1. Detroit Pistons — Oklahoma State PG Cade Cunningham
2. Houston Rockets — G League Ignite G/F Jalen Green
3. Cleveland Cavaliers — USC C Evan Mobley
4. Toronto Raptors — Florida State F Scottie Barnes
In the first (albeit mild) surprise of the night after the top three picks were as expected, Scottie Barnes is off the board. A freshman who has classic tweener size at 6-foot-9 with girth, he’s got a nice 7-foot-2 wingspan and has the versatile tool kit that — in the right place — could develop into a playmaking, defense-focused power forward. Hello, Pascal Siakam!
The shooting stroke is not there, nor were the numbers: 10.4 points, 4.1 assists and 4.0 rebounds a game his freshman year. It appears Toronto liked his upside over Gonzaga lead guard Jalen Suggs, who in hindsight might be a little too similar to Fred VanVleet, who they paid handsomely last summer.
5. Orlando Magic — Gonzaga PG Jalen Suggs
Suggs doesn’t drop far, though we avoided the possibility of a fun trend where the Magic draft yet another lanky, good-at-everything-master-at-nothing oversized forward in Barnes. If you want to finally find stability, it’s not bad to have a well-rounded, mature floor general to get things in order under new coach Jamahl Mosley.
6. Oklahoma City Thunder — Australian PG Josh Giddey
And here’s our first huge eyebrow-raiser. Giddey was a prospect who came on the radar not long ago, when it
7. Golden State Warriors — G League Ignite F Jonathan Kuminga
The Warriors might want to squeeze everything out of the Steph Curry-Klay Thompson-Draymond Green core, but they sure aren’t afraid of projects, now having a toolsy forward to go with last year’s second overall pick, James Wiseman.
8. Orlando Magic — Michigan F Franz Wagner
9. Sacramento Kings — Baylor G Davion Mitchell
10. New Orleans Pelicans — Stanford F Ziaire Williams
11. Charlotte Hornets — UConn G James Bouknight
12. San Antonio Spurs — Alabama G Joshua Primo
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