Sixers rookie center Adem Bona reportedly agreed to a 4-year deal Originally appeared in NBC Sports Philadelphia
Rookie center Adem Bona is already fully committed to the Sixers.
The 41st overall pick in this year’s NBA draft has agreed to sign a four-year, $8 million contract, Athletic’s Shams Charania reported.
The NBA’s second-round pick exception allows teams to sign second-round players without affecting their salary cap prospects. Under the second-round exception, the final season of a four-year contract is a team option.
Bona won Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year honors as a sophomore at UCLA and averaged 12.4 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks.
He has been outstanding defensively in his first four appearances in the Sixers’ summer league. rushing all over the place and looking for blocked shots. Bona’s nine blocks in the Sixers’ three games in Utah He led the Salt Lake City Summer League. He rejected five more during the The team’s victory on Saturday night against the Pistons in Las Vegas.
“One of the things I would love to show is that I can do everything on defense: with the ball, pick-and-roll, switches.” Bona said this at his introductory press conference. “That’s something I’d love to show in my rookie year… Offensively, being able to get out in the pick-and-roll and play fast, which is one of my strengths.”
The other two centers in the Sixers roster They are seven-time All-Star Joel Embiid and Veteran rebounding extraordinaire Andre Drummond.
Bona, 21, believes being teammates with Embiid will help him find what works for him at the NBA level.
“Playing against him, facing him every day is going to be a challenge for me,” he said. “And it’s also going to be a learning process for me. Being able to learn from such an incredible player is going to be a really good step in my career.”
