Khaman Maluach selected No. 10 overall by the Houston Rockets 🚀

with the 10th pick in the 2025 NBA draft the Houston Rockets select Kaman Malawatch from Roombeck South Sudan the NBA Academy Africa and Sagal and Duke University the clear emotion here for Kaman Malawatch and his family [Applause] you’ll remember Kaman not only for his excellent rim protection at Duke but also playing for the South Sudan team that lost to the United States by just a single point and caught the world’s attention kaman is is one of the remarkable stories of this draft he grew up in Uganda after his family fled conflictridden South Sudan and he picked up a basketball at 14 years old after a motorcycle cab driver stopped him walking down the street and said “You’re so tall you should start playing basketball you can see how much this dream realized means to him in this moment but the one story that keeps on sticking out me is playing against Team USA Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid and seeing his mom who he hasn’t seen in years walk down that aisle and it wasn’t those two players that intimidated him it was that seeing his mom in that in the stands there and truly one of the great stories of this year’s draft he told Armonica Mcnite yesterday Bobby that his parents are at home and he thinks that they’ll stay up a little bit past their bedtime to watch their son have this moment with NBA Commissioner Adam

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