For the third time in the past four years, an Oregon Ducks basketball player has been selected in the first round of the NBA Draft.
Oregon star Chris Duarte kept that trend going on Thursday night when the Indiana Pacers drafted him with the 13th overall pick. As we expected, Duarte’s supreme summer that was filled with high-level workouts propelled him into the back-end of the draft lottery, which was not expected earlier in the spring.
Duarte is just the 6th Duck to be drafted in the first round this century, and just the third to do so since 2010. Now with the Pacers, Duarte will look to be a plug-and-play guard who can immediately contribute and look to help a young roster that is looking to get back into championship contention.
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