The first round of the NBA Draft has come and gone, with Cooper Flagg going first overall as expected before a few surprise trades and selections turned heads.
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Now attention quickly turns to the second round and for Australian NBA fans, there are four different reasons to tune in with a quartet of future Boomers expected to have their names called.
Alex Toohey (Sydney Kings), Tyrese Proctor (Duke), Rocco Zikarsky (Brisbane Bullets) and Lachlan Olbrich (Illawarra Hawks) have routinely been mocked in the second round.
If all four are drafted, it would be the first time that has happened since 1997 when Chris Anstey, CJ Bruton, Paul Rogers and Ben Pepper were all selected in the same class.
Where exactly they will get selected, however, is hard to predict although Proctor has been widely tipped to be the first Australian to be selected on Friday.
To give you an idea of his range, ESPN had Proctor joining fellow Australian Josh Green in Charlotte with the 34th overall pick in its latest mock while The Athletic had him going 32nd to Boston and Yahoo Sports projected the Duke guard to the Magic at 46th.
Toohey, meanwhile, was tipped by ESPN to team up with Josh Giddey in Chicago at 45th overall while The Athletic had him joining Steph Curry and the Warriors (41st overall).
Yahoo Sports mocked Toohey to the Cleveland Cavaliers at 49th, so the versatile NBL Next Star typically seems to settle in around the midway point of the second round.
Zikarsky is a particularly tough player to project a landing spot for given it is hard to rule any team out from drafting him.
Sure, the same could be said for any later prospect given the lack of consensus surrounding second-round picks but Zikarsky at just 18 years old and without much production in the NBL is more of a long-term project.
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He brings sky-high upside though, both figuratively and literally, at 7-foot-3 with ESPN’s Jeremy Woo reporting ahead of the draft combine that NBA front offices were “intrigued by his size and unique background dating back several years”.
ESPN has Zikarsky mocked to Golden State at 41st overall while The Athletic has the Bucks taking him at 47th and Yahoo Sports projected him to Phoenix at 52nd.
That pick may be unlikely now that the Suns took Khaman Maluach at 10th overall and traded for Mark Williams, but if Phoenix wants to continue to build at a previous position of need and stash Zikarsky as a future upside play it may still make sense.
Finally, Olbrich isn’t expected to go early in the second round and instead may have to wait until the last few picks to have his name called.
ESPN, however, had him going 50th to the Knicks as did The Athletic while Yahoo Sports mocked him to runners-up Indiana at 54th overall.
You can read more in-depth summaries of each of the Australians here!
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