The Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year has found his NBA home!
Former two-year UCLA Bruins power forward/center Adem Bona has found his next NBA home. The 6-foot-10 big man has been selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 41 round of the 2024 NBA Draft.June 27, 2024
When Bona was merely a freshman, he earned a starting berth on an upperclassman-loaded 2022-23 UCLA Bruins squad that finished with a 31-6 record and made it all the way to the Sweet Sixteen in that spring's March Madness run. Three of Bona's fellow Bruins starters on that squad were selected in the subsequent 2023 NBA Draft, led by eventual All-Rookie First Team small forward Jaime Jaquez, who was picked at No. 18 by the Miami Heat.
Across 33 contests in 2023-24 for the 16-17 Bruins, Bona averaged NCAA career bests of 12.4 points , 5.9 rebounds, 1.8 blocks, 1.2 assists and 1.1 steals a night. Bona is just the latest in a long, legendary line of Bruins to leap the league. In the current NBA. At present, 12 other Bruins alums are rostered. Four of those UCLA products — Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Jrue Holiday, and Zach LaVine — have made All-Star teams. Each of those four has, in fact, made multiple All-Star berths. It's unfair to expect that kind of upside out of Bona, who projects, at best, to be a solid role player.
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