LOS ANGELES – Three NBA draft picks currently playing in the league come from Cameroon: veteran Luc Mbah a Moute, and the two 22-year-olds Mbah a Moute helped discover.
The more frequently mentioned of those two younger Cameroonian players is Joel Embiid, the Sixers center bursting onto the scene now after getting selected third overall in 2014. The other is Pascal Siakam, a first-round 2016 pick who’s more quietly worked his way into the Raptors’ starting lineup.
When Siakam was in his early teenage years, he attended one of Mbah a Moute’s camps in Africa.