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A.J. Hammons Drafted #46 Overall by Dallas Mavericks

A.J. Hammons has now seen his dreams come true. His name was just called in the 2016 NBA Draft

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) June 24, 2016

By now we all know the story. AJ was a four year player that grew from a "disinterested" freshman into an NBA caliber big man. Here is what we said about him in our draft profile on him:

Concerning his NBA fate, however, we must look at his senior season, and it was a great individual one. The games where he was a ghost (and he had those early in his career) went away, and there were times where he was completely an utterly dominant on both ends of the floor.