Warriors agree to acquire Post’s draft rights in No. 52 pick switch-a-roo initially appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The Warriors made a range with the No. 52 total choose within the 2024 NBA Draft in spite of everything.
Hours after trading the pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder for ahead Lindy Waters III, the Warriors reacquired the choice for money and used it on Boston Faculty heart Quinten Post, 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 laborious 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
The Warriors later introduced they’d agreed in principle to reacquire Put up’s draft rights from the Portland Trail Blazers, through the Thunder, although the commerce isn’t but finalized.
Born within the Netherlands, Put up stands at 7 ft tall and weighs 244 kilos. He spent 5 seasons in faculty, starting at Mississippi State earlier than transferring to Boston Faculty, 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. He shot 51.4 % from the sector and 43.1 % from 3-point vary in his closing 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, although, the Warriors might be very proud of the choice.
The Warriors have no true 7-foot facilities on their roster in the mean time — Kevon Looney and Trayce Jackson-Davis, each 6-9, obtained a bulk of the minutes final season — so Put up might carve out a job for himself if he can impress throughout summer time league and coaching camp.
