NBA-Drafts: Cooper Flagg as a number one pick for the MAVS, Noa Essengue to the Bulls

As expected, the Dallas Mavericks have signed the Top-Pick Cooper Flag as expected. The two Ulm Talente Noa Essengue and Ben Saraf were also pulled in the first round of the talent exchange.

“It feels surreal”Flagg said after his name was called in the Arena of Brooklyn Nets, where his family was by his side: “I feel really blessed and honored to be here.“

The 18-year-old from the famous talent smithy of the Duke University was a large hype, flag is considered an exceptional talent, an athletic Two-way player, with great qualities as a scorer but also on the defensive. Last season he was elected as the first semester at Duke as the best US college player.

Flagg is the second youngest player in the story, who was chosen first in the NBA draft. Only superstar LeBron James was eight days younger when he was pulled by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. When preparing the Olympics of the US team on the Olympic Games in Paris, Flag was flown in for the training sessions as sparring partners for the NBA stars.

The Dallas Mavericks had drawn the big lot on the number one pick in the upstream “Draft Lottery”, in which access rights are distributed-and were now able to hire the megatalent from Duke University.

Ulm Essengue and Saraf also committed as a first -off pick

As expected, the two Ulm top talents Noa Essengue and Ben Saraf were also selected in the first round of the NBA-Drafts. The 18 -year -old Frenchman Essengue, even traded in the run -up to the top ten, was drawn as a twelfth player by the Chicago Bulls. The Israeli Saraf (19 years) went to the Brooklyn Nets in 26.

There had been a lot of trouble between Ulm and the BBL for the two Ulm players because the final series overlapped the NBA-Drafts. The Ulm had submitted an application to relocate four and five final games to the 24th and 26th June, so that the two teenagers can be part of both the draft and the BBL final games. The league rejected a neutermination, which caused violent criticism from Ulm.

In the end, Saraf stayed in Germany, Essengue traveled to the United States – and will also be missing from the Ulmen after game four in the decisive fifth game of the final series for the German championship against FC Bayern.

The Frenchman Joan Beringer (Ljubljana) were also drawn from the Minnesota Timberwolves from the top European leagues, as well as number 28 Hugo Gonzalez (Real Madrid) from the Boston Celtics.