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With the 7th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, the Warriors selected Jonathan Kuminga from the G League Ignite.
The 18-year-old combo forward stands at 6-foot-6 and was ranked as the No. 1 high school prospect in the Class of 2021 before reclassifying in 2020 and joining the G League Ignite.
Kuminga’s NBA journey is one-of-a-kind, with the teenager moving from his hometown of the Democratic Republic of Congo at age 13 to pursue his NBA dreams. At tonight’s event, Kuminga was joined by his parents, who he reunited with for the very first time since he made his move to the states nearly six years ago.
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Feb 15, 2021
Three games into the G League Ignite experience, it’s too soon to say anything particularly conclusive, other than the fact the NBA’s fledgling development program appears to be succeeding. Ignite is out to a surprising 3-0 start, besting some of the more talented teams in the G League bubble and getting production from a quartet of draft-eligible prospects. There’s always some inclination to be overly reactive to what we see from teenage prospects. But if there’s a real, immediate takeaway as a result of what we’ve seen so far, it’s that Jonathan Kuminga has begun to rewrite the conversation at the top of the 2021 draft.