Out of all the international prospects taken in Thursday’s NBA Draft, Jonah Bolden’s path to being selected by the Sixers with the 39th overall pick may be the strangest.
Bolden grew up in Australia, and transferred to Findlay Prep High School in Henderson, Nevada in order to heighten his recruiting profile. But his eligibility expired after just one semester, and Bolden was then forced to transfer to a post-graduate school in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
A four-star recruit after the end of his high school fiasco, Bolden opted to head back to the West Coast and play at UCLA.