MAXPREPS Oklahoma State, Montverde Academy star was the MaxPreps National Player of the Year in 2019-20.
Prior to playing at Oklahoma State last season, Cade Cunningham was the catalyst for one of high school basketball s all-time great teams at Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.). The Texas native earned 2019-20 MaxPreps National Player of the Year honors, joining a list that includes Ben Simmons, Michael Porter Jr. and R.J. Barrett.
Cunningham averaged 13.9
points, 6.4 assists and 4.2 rebounds per contest while shooting 59.2 percent from the field and 47.7 percent from 3-point range during his senior campaign at Montverde. The Eagles beat opponents by an average margin of 39 points per game en route to a 25-0 record.
Magic select Jalen Suggs at No. 5, Franz Wagner at No. 8
BY JOHN DENTONJuly 30, 2021 GMT
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) When the Orlando Magic’s hopes of moving up in the NBA draft never materialized, they instead used their picks to select former Gonzaga star Jalen Suggs fifth and German forward Franz Wagner eighth.
Owners of two top-eight picks for the first time in franchise history, the Magic had hopes of packaging those selections and moving into the draft’s top four. However, when they failed to find a trade to their liking, the Magic stood pat and chose Suggs and Wagner.
“It was a great night for the Magic,” Orlando President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman said. “We added two talented, high-character, team-oriented players. It’s not often you get to add, not one, but two of these guys on the same night.”
NBA Draft 2021 Presented by State Farm®: by The Numbers
By Sentinel News Service
NBA Draft 2021 presented by State Farm
® will take place on Thursday, July 29 at 8 p.m. ET at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. ABC will televise the first round of the NBA Draft for the first time, and ESPN will air both rounds. Twenty draft prospects are scheduled to attend and have their once-in-a-lifetime experience on the biggest stage.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer Mark Tatum will announce the selections for the first and second rounds, respectively.
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Just as the Pistons spent the past month learning everything they could about Cade Cunningham, so did the player tabbed nearly universally as the rightful No. 1 pick spend time since the June 22 lottery envisioning himself tugging on a Pistons jersey.
“I love Detroit,” Cunningham, who indeed was drafted No. 1 in Thursday night’s NBA draft, said last week after being hosted by the Pistons for his predraft workout.
“I’ve already been listening to Detroit music way before the draft lottery, any of that stuff. I was already hip to the culture in Detroit. It’s a city that has a lot of things going on. Getting the sports teams rolling again would be huge for the city. If Detroit picks me, that’s the main thing I’m going to try to do is step in and embody the swag that people from Detroit, Michigan walk with.”