Only Young was the fifth player selected in the 2018 NBA Draft, not the third. OK, we’re splitting hairs, but the reality is the former Sooner star was selected initially by the Dallas Mavericks, who had the No. 5 overall pick in the draft. The player the Mavs were really after, however, had already been taken off the board, two spots ahead of Young.
The words of Young’s selection by Dallas by NBA commissioner Adam Silver served merely as the teaser for the real announcement: The Mavericks had traded the No. 5 overall pick to the Atlanta Hawks for Luka Doncic, the outstanding foreign player the Hawks had drafted as their top pick, in the No.