Nicolas Timberlake (with mom, Dineen) came from a sporting family. His father, Jeff (right), attended BC High, then Boston University, where he scored 1,000 points and graduated as the program’s career assist leader.
Nicolas Timberlake (with mom, Dineen) came from a sporting family. His father, Jeff (right), attended BC High, then Boston University, where he scored 1,000 points and graduated as the program’s career assist leader.courtesy timberlake family
Braintree native Nicolas Timberlake was one of three players added by the Maine Celtics on Saturday night in the annual NBA G League draft.
Maine took Timberlake, a 6-foot-4-inch guard, with the 54th pick in the two-round draft. Earlier, Maine acquired 6-8 forward Stefan Todorovic and 6-9 forward Vance Jackson Jr.
Timberlake, who was born with a cleft lip and palate, is a 2017 Braintree High grad who played a season at Kimball Union in New Hampshire before five college seasons at Towson and a grad year with Kansas in 2023-24. He played in England last season, leading the Cheshire Phoenix with 16.6 points per game, as well as for a team of Kansas alums that reached the third round of the $1 million TBT event.
Todorovic was an All-West Coast Conference honorable mention choice last season for Pepperdine, for whom he averaged 18.3 points and 5.5 rebounds in 35 games. He spent time with the 76ers squad during the NBA Summer League in Salt Lake City.
Jackson worked through four schools as a collegian — he transferred from UConn after averaging 26 minutes per game as a freshman in 2016-17 — and concluded at East Carolina, where he hit 41 percent of his 3-pointers in 2021-22. He played a total of seven G League games across the last two seasons.
Former NBA Draft picks Dillon Jones and Tyler Smith headline the 2025 NBA G League Draft.
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Fifty-one players were taken from 62 selections in the draft. Among them:
⋅ Jamal Mashburn Jr., the son of the NBA All-Star who played prep school ball at Brewster Academy alongside, among others, the late Terrence Clarke.
⋅ Josh Cohen, who averaged a team-leading 15.9 points for a 20-win UMass team in 2023-24.
⋅ Chris Mantis, who came off the bench in 34 games for the Maine Black Bears last season and hit 44 percent of his 3-point attempts.
⋅ Jabri Abdur-Rahim, a 6-foot-7 guard who spent last season with Providence and is the son of G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim.
⋅ T.J. Weeks Jr., a Warwick, R.I., native and Bishop Hendricken grad who played four seasons at UMass (where his father, Tyrone Weeks, starred from 1994-98) and two at Rider.