{"id":3797,"date":"2010-06-25T13:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2010-06-25T13:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T18:44:16","slug":"bears-udoh-the-no-6-overall-pick-in-2010-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/06\/bears-udoh-the-no-6-overall-pick-in-2010-nba-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears&#8217; Udoh the No. 6 overall pick in 2010 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"udoh-stern-june10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/udoh-stern-june10.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor's Ekpe Udoh &amp; NBA Commissioner David Stern\" width=\"225\" height=\"279\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/warriors\/warriors_2010_draft_central.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBA&#8217;s Golden State Warriors selected Baylor All-American Ekpe Udoh with the sixth overall pick<\/a> in Thursday&#8217;s NBA Draft, making Udoh the highest-drafted Bear in program history.<\/p>\n<p>The excitement in the Baylor contingent at Madison Square Garden was obvious, as head coach Scott Drew nearly jumped out of the building when Udoh&#8217;s name was called, and the draftee himself skipped the usual handshake with NBA Commissioner David Stern in favor of what could only be described as a Bear hug. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/warriors\/news\/2010_warriors_draft_multimedia.html\" target=\"_blank\">See  video of that as well as analysis of the pick and a post-draft interview here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>His introductory press conference as a Warrior will stream live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/warriors\/index_main.html\" target=\"_blank\">warriors.com<\/a> at 2 p.m. PT (4 p.m. CT). Speaking Thursday night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/sports\/bk\/bkn\/7079472.html\" target=\"_blank\">Udoh described his love for Baylor<\/a> to the <em>Houston Chronicle<\/em>. &#8220;I am really proud to be here because Baylor is a great school and Coach Drew has taken us out of the darkness. I think I will be the first of a few to come out of the program in the next few years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seven Big 12 players went in the first round this year, but none higher than Udoh. The 6-10 forward is the fourth NBA first round pick ever from Baylor, following in the footsteps of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsvi01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vinnie Johnson<\/a> (1979, seventh overall pick), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/teaglte01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Teagle<\/a> (1982, 16th overall) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/skinnbr01.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Skinner<\/a> (1998, 22nd overall). All three went on to long NBA careers: 13 years for Johnson, 11 for Teagle and 12-plus for Skinner, who is still active.<\/p>\n<p><em>[July 1 update: When Udoh begins play in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/features\/2010.summer.league.schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Summer League<\/a> next week, he&#8217;ll be joined by two other Bears. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mysanantonio.com\/weblogs\/courtside\/2010\/06\/anderson-iffy-o.html\" target=\"_blank\">Curtis Jerrells<\/a> will be playing in Las Vegas for the San Antonio Spurs, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/nets\/news\/Summer_League_Roster_Release_100628.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tweety  Carter<\/a> will be in Orlando with the New Jersey Nets.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Ekpe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA&#8217;s Golden State Warriors selected Baylor All-American Ekpe Udoh with the sixth overall pick in Thursday&#8217;s NBA Draft, making Udoh the highest-drafted Bear in program history. The excitement in the Baylor contingent at Madison Square Garden was obvious, as head coach Scott Drew nearly jumped out of the building when Udoh&#8217;s name was called, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}