Richardson is the second player with ties to Mercer County acquired by the Kings on draft night.
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The person says the Suns are sending the No. 13 and No. 28 picks this year along with the rights to Bogdan Bogdanovic to Sacramento.
That is exactly the position he finds himself in today, working to figure out the right pick or trade to move the Suns forward. Mock drafts have had several theories for what the Suns will be doing with this pick.
With Bender along with No. 8 pick Marquese Chriss, as well as Eric Bledsoe, Brandon Knight, Devin Booker, T.J. Warren and Alex Len, the Suns are confident they have put together a group with similar traits. The Suns had tried to pry that selection from the Kings in previous weeks, but to no avail.
Chriss, an explosive athlete and efficient shooter at 6-10, 233-pounds, averaged 13.7 points on 53.0 percent shooting from the field and 35.0 percent from three-point territory, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 34 games during his one season at Washington in 2015-16.
Today, Vlade Divac made a decision to trade Belinelli for Charlotte’s No. 22 pick in the NBA Draft. Both were invited to attend Thursdays festivities in New York.Chriss is just the sixth UW player to be drafted in the top 10, and the fourth during the 14-year tenure of coach Lorenzo Romar. The Sacramento native impressed in his lone season at Washington and could be used as a perimeter player in the future. Bogdanovic was chosen by the Suns in the first round of the 2014 but hasn’t signed with the team. The Knicks were heavily criticized for drafting Latvian Kristaps Porziņģis previous year, and he had a good enough season to prove those doubters wrong.
Oregon State Beavers guard Gary Payton II (1) dribbles the ball during the first half against the Utah Utes at Jon M. Huntsman Center.
“You might talk about, ‘who can he guard?’ Well, who’s going to guard him? I know it’s going to take time for me to grow”. “It goes both ways”, Watson said.
With the draft less than five minutes away, former University of Kentucky star Karl-Anthony Towns, the reigning NBA Rookie of the Year, was in the house and providing analysis on NBA TV. He struggled in limited minutes last season, and although he’s got great size, he’s a long way from materializing into an National Basketball Association talent.
“It’s already a family atmosphere here”, Ulis said.
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“I think that was a steal for us”, Divac said.
