The Brooklyn Nets didn’t set off any seismographs with their two selections in Thursday’s NBA Draft, taking Georgia big man Nicolas Claxton and UCLA guard Jaylen Hands with the two picks they wound up with in the second round.
Claxton was the second-to-last player invited to the draft’s green room at Barclays Center to hear his name called when he went to Brooklyn with the 31st overall pick to open the second round.
He wound up going 13 picks ahead of Oregon prospect and NBA legacy Bol Bol, whose long night finally ended when he was selected 44th overall by the Miami Heat and later had his rights traded to the Denver Nuggets.