Report: Warriors reacquire No. 52 choose, draft BC middle Put up initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bay Space
The Warriors made a range with the No. 52 general choose within the 2024 NBA Draft in any case.
Hours after buying and selling the choose to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder for ahead Lindy Waters III, the Warriors reacquired the choice for money and used it on Boston School middle Quinten Put up, The Athletic’s Anthony Slater, reported, citing a supply.
The Warriors traded money to reacquire the 52nd choose and drafted Quinten Put up, per supply. That formally arduous caps the Warriors on the second apron. They’re now unable to go over it this season (which was the plan regardless).
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) June 27, 2024
Born within the Netherlands, Put up stands at 7 toes tall and weighs 244 kilos. He spent 5 seasons in faculty, starting at Mississippi State earlier than transferring to Boston School, the place he spent the final three seasons.
As a senior at BC, Put up averaged 17.0 factors and eight.1 rebounds in 31.9 minutes in 35 video games, all begins.
Put up shot 51.4 p.c from the sphere and 43.1 p.c from 3-point vary in his remaining collegiate season.
Citing Put up’s lack of mobility and talent to be a 3-and-D participant, NBA.com’s draft profile compares him to longtime NBA veterans Brook Lopez and Al Horford.
If Put up is ready to flip into both of these gamers, the Warriors will likely be very pleased with the choice.
The Warriors haven’t any true 7-foot facilities on their roster in the meanwhile — Kevon Looney and Trayce Jackson-Davis, each 6-foot-9, acquired a bulk of the minutes final season — so Put up has an opportunity to carve out a job for himself if he can impress throughout summer season league and coaching camp.
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