Brooklyn Nets Select Drake Powell With The 22nd Overall Pick

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00:00At 22 overall, the Brooklyn Nets have sent that pick in to Commissioner Adam Silver

00:06with the 22nd overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.

00:10The Nets, with their third first-round selection of the night,

00:13take Drake Powell, the 6'6 wing, at $1.95 out of North Carolina.

00:20The first first-round pick for UNC here tonight, JY,

00:24after seeing three guys go from their bitter rivals in the top 10 from the Duke Blue Devils.

00:30So Drake Powell, in his only year in Chapel Hill, certainly has some upside,

00:34but still averaged just a little bit better than seven points per game.

00:38So not an international guard-slash-wing,

00:42but one who played his college ball for a year in Chapel Hill at UNC.

00:46Is this a better pick that Sean Marks in the Nets just made?

00:50I mean, it's better in the fact that it's not a point guard.

00:52I mean, I still wouldn't look at front-court help, but if you look at Powell,

00:57this is the guy who's a catch-and-shoot shooter, hustles, plays solid defense.

01:01So if he plays solid defense and he hustles, that means he's the exact opposite of Cam Thomas.

01:08So to me, yeah, if you look at the fact that you've got a way better defender on the wing

01:12that can help you defensively, offensive game needs to grow.

01:16But, you know, I'm looking at Brooklyn, and they're like,

01:18if you're moving on from Cam Johnson, if you're moving on from, obviously,

01:22you know, Nick Claxton in the offseason, you know,

01:25it would be my thought that the next pick or picks you have coming up,

01:29you've got to address the frontcourt, either at the power forward position,

01:34as well, like Asa Newell, or I would look at someone like a Ryan Kaufbrenner

01:38as a pivot right there for Brooklyn.

01:39Rather surprising me, perhaps, Kev, the first first-round pick that North Carolina

01:44as a program has had since Walker Kessler back in 2022, who also went 22nd overall.

01:53So as, okay, that was a little bit spicy.

01:55So, Kev and Tom, as you guys alluded to in breaking down what we expected the Nets to do,

02:00they take Drake Powell at 22nd.

02:03They have still utilized, at least at this moment,

02:05all three of their first-round picks out of five in total.

02:09Tonight, Kev, you didn't like Yeager or Dimmon?

02:12Eh, a little bit more, I guess you could say, mediocre on Nolan Traore.

02:16How do you feel about Drake Powell now on VK?

02:19The most unbiased man in the history of sports media is not going to step up and tell a lie.

02:24Easily the best pick they've made all night.

02:26I think Drake Powell is in the same tier of prospect as Carter Bryan.

02:31I'm sure people won't agree.

02:32I'm fine with that.

02:33Drake Powell maybe did the best job any player did on Cooper Flag this season,

02:39which is saying a lot.

02:41And I thought he showed a lot more versatility on offense than Carter Bryan.

02:49Did not have a high usage rate.

02:51I would, though, use Ben's point about the lack of first-rounders to justify that.

02:57Whatever Hubert Davis is doing in Chapel Hill, not good.

03:01Ask Ian Jackson, who had to go to St. John's.

03:04Caleb Wilson, I don't know what you're doing, pal.

03:07I'm not sure I like that move.

03:09Hubert Davis was nearly fired, and then a week later got a contract extension.

03:13I'm giving Drake Powell a pass, Ben.

03:15I really, truly believe this is by far Brooklyn's best decision here tonight.

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