{"id":24010,"date":"2023-06-23T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=24010"},"modified":"2023-06-23T09:05:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:05:57","slug":"keyonte-george-becomes-baylors-third-straight-nba-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2023\/06\/keyonte-george-becomes-baylors-third-straight-nba-first-round-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyonte George becomes Baylor&#8217;s third straight NBA first-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24011\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/george-june23.jpg\" alt=\"Keyonte George hugs friends and family after being drafted\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/george-june23.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/george-june23-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/george-june23-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/george-june23-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/keyonte-george\/11794\">Keyonte George<\/a> heard his name called last night in the 2023 NBA Draft, it fulfilled a lifelong dream for the former Baylor guard &#8212; and continued a recent trend for BU that no one else in college basketball can match.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BaylorMBB\/status\/1672061717860188160\">George was selected with the 16th overall pick by the Utah Jazz<\/a>, making him <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/news\/2023\/6\/22\/mens-basketball-mbbs-george-selected-16th-overall-in-the-2023-nba-draft.aspx\">the ninth first-round pick in program history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">bringin\u2019 another bear to Utah &#x1f43b;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TakeNote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TakeNote<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keyonte1george?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@keyonte1george<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MuGcIXGu3D\">pic.twitter.com\/MuGcIXGu3D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahjazz\/status\/1672061891697602561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If a high Baylor draft pick feels like an annual event, that&#8217;s because it is. George joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2021\/07\/baylors-davion-mitchell-goes-no-9-overall-in-2021-nba-draft-1-of-4-bears-going-pro\/\">Davion Mitchell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2022\/06\/baylors-sochan-goes-no-9-overall-in-2022-nba-draft\/\">Jeremy Sochan<\/a> as Baylor first-round draftees since 2021, and all of them came off the board early. Baylor is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BUDREW\/status\/1672087144180113409\">the only school with top-16 picks in each of the last three drafts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A first-round selection was always in sight for George, who backed up the expectations that come from being a five-star recruit with a highly decorated year in green and gold. George was named <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/news\/2023\/3\/5\/mens-basketball-baylor-mbb-guard-trio-collect-all-big-12-accolades.aspx\">Big 12 Freshman of the Year<\/a> last season, averaging over 15 points, 4 rebounds and nearly 3 assists per game. His 12 games of 20+ points was also a Baylor freshman record, and his 506 points were just three away from Baylor\u2019s freshman high-water mark for a season (set by Aaron Bruce in 2004-05). George was also named to the All-Big 12 Second Team and All-Big 12 Freshman Team.<\/p>\n<p>George is Baylor&#8217;s 12th NBA draft pick in Scott Drew&#8217;s 20 seasons at Baylor. Since 2012, Baylor leads all Texas schools (and ranks second in the Big 12) with 11 NBA draftees.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Keyonte George!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Keyonte George heard his name called last night in the 2023 NBA Draft, it fulfilled a lifelong dream for the former Baylor guard &#8212; and continued a recent trend for BU that no one else in college basketball can match. George was selected with the 16th overall pick by the Utah Jazz, making him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}