Amen & Ausar Thompson Become First Twins Taken Top Five At NBA Draft
The twins make history, as point guard Amen Thompson is taken by the Houston Rockets at pick four, while small forward Ausar Thompson lands with the Detroit Pistons at pick five. In the same year, that is the first in NBA Draft history as consecutive selections since the 1976 ABA-NBA merger. The only two brothers that both went top three in their respective year’s drafts are the Ball brothers, Lonzo Ball going number two overall in 2017 from UCLA to the Los Angeles Lakers and LaMelo Ball, going number three overall to the Charlotte Hornets in 2020. There were another pair of brothers that were...