Jimmy Butler and Tom Thibodeau hope to rekindle their past.
2. Los Angeles Lakers selected Lonzo Ball.
Thibodeau got his man, swinging a seismic trade that brings Butler to his team.
The Wolves also receive Chicago's 16th overall pick, Creighton forward Justin Patton, who was the Big East freshman of the year. With the 8th pick, they selected Frenchman Frank Ntilikina, an explosive slashing point guard who possess an wingspan of 7ft, Ntilikina is an guard who can be an ideal fit to Phil's signature triangle offense. Dunn's jump to the pros wasn't always smooth as he didn't get a lot of playing time after he was chosen No. 5 a year ago. The seven footer was impressive in the 31 games he played last season, averaging about 20 points and eight rebounds per game.
Fultz put an end to his season following a 26-point outing in a 76-68 defeat to Arizona on February 18.
On Thursday night, 60 prospects will hear their names announced during the NBA Draft in Brooklyn, New York, at the Barclays Center.
For one, you can play him at point guard or off the ball.
The 19-year-old Fultz, who is the club's fourth top overall pick, averaged 23.2 points, 5.9 assists, 5.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals over 25 games last season for a Huskies team that was 9-22.
Like I said before, this should come as no surprise since the news came out of the trade between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers.
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Fultz now joins a core that includes Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, Dario Saric, Robert Covington and others as the second player chosen in as many years with the top selection in the draft by the Sixers.
That's why Fultz's teammate Joel Embiid is fully on board with Fultz's opinion, as outlandish as it may be for a team that has won 75 games in its last four full seasons combined.
"Everybody knows A.I.is known for the crossover and they love him here and a chance to come here and he [too] was the No. 1 pick is kind of insane", Fultz said.
"Me and Marquese Chriss hosted Markelle and talked so much how he could do this and do that if he came to UW, but that (ended) up changing because me and Marquese shocked everyone and turned our dreams into reality", Murray wrote on his Twitter account. For Washington guard Markelle Fultz, who Philadelphia predictably selected Thursday night, it means joining a nucleus of promising young talent instead of a team now in contention. He's an overall talent going to a team that just needed the best boost of talent they could get at this spot. Known for his outstanding passing ability, Simmons can also score the ball whenever he wants because of his size and ability to get to the basket easily.
The Celtics used the third pick on Duke's Jayson Tatum.
Kansas' Josh Jackson (Phoenix Suns) and Kentucky's De'Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings) rounded out the top five.
Fox ended up in the same state as Ball, who he outplayed when Kentucky ousted UCLA in the NCAA Tournament. "It just shows you how this business is and like I said, I just go with the flow".
Simmons missed his rookie season with a broken right foot.
The Los Angeles Lakers followed by taking Ball as the draft started with a pair of freshmen point guards from the Pac-12 Conference. In his only collegiate season, Fultz shot 47.6 percent from the field, made 41.3 percent of his 3-point attempts, reached double figures 24 times and set a school record for points by a freshman with 579.
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