The San Antonio Spurs chosen guard Dylan Harper with the second total choose and ahead Carter Bryant 14th total within the 2025 NBA Draft.
Harper, 6-5/215, averaged 19.4 factors, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 29 video games at Rutgers College. In his lone season with the Scarlet Knights, Harper recorded 564 factors, setting a brand new freshman scoring file for this system, whereas taking pictures 48.7 p.c from the sphere. He scored in double figures in 24-of-29 video games, together with Rutgers’ first triple-double since 1983 with 16 factors, 11 rebounds and 12 assists in a win over Columbia on Dec. 30. He reached the 20-point mark in 20 video games on his method to Large Ten All-Freshman honors and All-Large Ten Third Crew.
From Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, Harper led Don Bosco Preparatory Excessive College to a 2024 state title and was named 2023-24 Gatorade New Jersey Participant of the Yr in addition to MVP of the 2024 McDonald’s American Recreation and Jordan Model Basic. He represented USA Basketball as a member of the 2024 USA Males’s Junior Nationwide Choose Crew and the 2023 USA Males’s U19 Nationwide Crew on the 2023 FIBA U-19 World Cup in Hungary.
Bryant, 6-7/215, appeared in 37 video games for the Arizona Wildcats, averaging 6.5 factors, 4.1 rebounds, 1.00 blocks and 0.90 steals per sport, whereas taking pictures 46.0 p.c from the ground and 37.1 p.c from three.
A local of Riverside, California, Bryant was named a McDonald’s All-American after averaging 17.0 factors and 9.0 rebounds as a senior at Corona Centennial Excessive College and acquired the 2023 Wood Award because the boys basketball participant of the 12 months for CIF Southern Part District IV as a junior at Sage Hill the place he averaged 22.1 factors, 13.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 2.90 blocks and 1.60 steals per sport.
