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Trae Young’s 2018 NBA Draft by the numbers

At the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, Young became the sixth Sooner basketball player to be selected among the first five draft picks in the NBA’s annual talent fair.

Young ended up as the first-round pick of the Atlanta Hawks by way of a trade with the Dallas Mavericks, who selected the former OU star and then moved him to Atlanta in exchange for the Hawks’ No. 3 overall pick, Luka Doncic of Slovenia, and a 2019 first-round pick.

A 6-foot, 2-inch point guard, Young has been touted as the player with the highest upside to become an NBA All-Star of the top-10 draft picks, but also the player with the most risk to become an NBA bust.