First Round of NBA Draft Features Four French Players, Including Three of Top 10

First Round of NBA Draft Features Four French Players, Including Three of Top 10
French basketball player Zaccharie Risacher (R) poses with Adam Silver, Commissioner of the NBA during Round One of the NBA's annual draft in Brooklyn on June 26, 2024. Timothy A. Clary/ AFP
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The NBA may have to rethink the timing of its annual draft. Not the month, but a tweak to the hour the picks start coming off the board.

Paris is six hours ahead of New York, so French basketball fans eager to witness history had to stay up into the wee hours of Thursday morning, June 27, to see France join the United States as the only countries with three players selected in the top 10 picks of an NBA draft.