Proudly owning the No. 41 total choose within the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday, the Sixers chosen Nigerian heart Adem Bona, who spent two years at UCLA.
Bona, 21, is a fully tireless employee, whose athleticism and energy are off the charts. He stands at 6-foot-9.5 and 243 kilos with an enormous 7-foot-3.75 wingspan. In his sophomore marketing campaign final season, Bona averaged 12.4 factors, 5.9 rebounds, 1.8 blocks and 1.1 steals per sport, capturing 58.8 p.c from the sphere. He made 69.6 p.c of his free throws and didn’t try a three-point shot.
The Sixers owned this choose on account of final February’s commerce, which despatched guard Jaden Springer to the Boston Celtics.
This comes lower than a day after the group caught with their first-round choose — No. 16 total — and chosen Duke guard Jared McCain.
Whereas McCain — like all first-round picks — is assigned a rookie-scale contract with two assured years and two group choices, no such scale exists for second-round picks. Groups may give gamers they choose in spherical two any type of deal; some second-rounders obtain offers which might be partially-guaranteed or non-guaranteed, however for the reason that creation of two-way contracts, many groups have targeted on drafting gamers in spherical two who will settle for these offers.
Actually, every of the final three No. 41 picks — Amari Bailey of the Charlotte Hornets in 2023, E.J. Liddell of the New Orleans Pelicans in 2022 and Joe Wieskamp of the San Antonio Spurs in 2021 — all signed two-way offers of their rookie seasons.
With only a few gamers underneath contract for the 2024-25 season, it’s totally potential that Bona has a real likelihood of creating the Sixers’ roster on a regular contract — particularly given how the Sixers prioritize depth behind Joel Embiid. However a two-way deal appears no less than simply as possible.
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