Previous Sunlight Devil Zylan Cheatham headed to Oklahoma City, will reunite with previous ASU teammate
Former Arizona Point out basketball standout Zylan Cheatham experienced hoped to return to the New Orleans Pelicans, with whom he performed very last year on a two-way G-League agreement.
But the latest information is most likely even a lot more to his liking. Cheatham, 25, is really headed to Oklahoma Town where by he will reunite with former ASU teammate Luguentz Dort, who just accomplished his rookie season, capped off by a breakout effectiveness in an NBA playoff sequence towards the Houston Rockets.
Cheatham was element of the 4-staff trade that involved the Thunder, Pelicans, Bucks and Nuggets which featured Steven Adams and Eric Bledsoe likely to New Orleans.
Cheatham and Dort both performed their only seasons for the Sunlight Devils in the 2018-2019 year, with each landing All-Pac 12 honors. Cheatham had only one particular time of eligibility still left following transferring from San Diego Point out even though Dort declared for the draft right after his freshman time in an ASU uniform.
Neither received drafted but the two signed two-way deals correct soon after the draft, Dort with the Thunder and Cheatham with the Pelicans.
Cheatham, a neighborhood solution out of South Mountain High College, performed for the Pelicans’ G-League affiliate in Erie, Pennsylvania, and was one of just six gamers in the G-League to regular a double-double at 16.3 points and 11.6 rebounds for every activity with his rebounding total fifth ideal in the league.
He was termed up to the Pelicans 4 various occasions, one particular coming the day right before the NBA shutdown owing to the coronavirus pandemic.
Dort, who manufactured the Pac-12 All-Defensive staff, worked his way into the Thunder starting off lineup simply because of his defensive prowess and afterwards landed a multi-calendar year deal. He gained countrywide recognition in the playoff series when he held Houston’s James Harden, also a former Solar Devil, to 10.8 points on 31.4% shooting from the field, including 26.3% from 3-place selection when he was his key defender, in accordance to NBA monitoring details.
Dort also showed some offensive firepower in the closing sport of the Houston series, scoring 30 details, which led all scorers. It marked the most for an undrafted rookie in a playoff game considering that the draft was introduced in 1947.
Dort became the youngest participant in NBA historical past to score 30 factors in a Activity 7, joining Kobe Bryant and LeBron James as the only gamers to score at the very least 25 points in a Video game 7 right before the age of 22.
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