For the second time in eight years, four North Carolina basketball players were chosen in the first round of the NBA draft.
The rundown from Thursday night:
The rundown from Thursday night:
- The Golden State Warriors drafted Harrison Barnes seventh -- and the team had him rated higher than that, writes Vittorio Tafur of the San Francisco Chronicle.
- The Phoenix Suns drafted point guard Kendall Marshall 13th because of “his brain and his ability to make people better, who he is off the court for our locker room,” general manager Lance Blanks told Paul Coro of The Arizona Republic.
- The Milwaukee Bucks helped shore up their defense by choosing forward John Henson 14th, writes Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
- The Cleveland Cavaliers traded for forward Tyler Zeller after he was drafted 17th by Dallas. Here’s the transcript of his news conference from The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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- Wrote for Raleigh News & Observer
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