Surpassed expectations. It'll be a great club for him to be part of. All indications are that OKC has a bright future

Is that good or bad?

I know most predicted GWS at 7...

Does being picked 6 guarantee more than 7...more money the higher up youre picked?

Better 'group' to develop him at GSW than OKC?

Was always gonna be a Top 10 pick. Congratulations to Giddey and the 36ers!

Yes. More money for Giddey. OKC has picks for years to come. They have a history of a great front office & coaching staff. He should do well there.

Pick 6 $4.99m
Pick 7 $4.56m

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/cba/rookie-scale/

Oklahoma Thunder must really like the 36ers
having drafted Terrance Ferguson in 2017 also

Great stuff, congratulations to Giddey and his family/coaching staff/mentors etc etc etc

Awesome.
I was actually hoping he'd slip, just to take the pressure off him, but now that #6 has happened I'm stoked for him. Gonna have a great career.

awesome thanks for the clarification, look forward to seeing him mature and leading the boomers in Paris in 2024

Solid PG opportunities at OKC, assuming they move Kemba on. Maledon and Jerome in their PG depth charts, but Jerome is tagged as SG. Maledon was 27 MPG, 10 PPG last season.

I suppose they could run Giddey through pre-season and then decide what to do with Kemba?

Great news for Josh & OKC.
He's gone to a team with a great front office that have a history of holding onto drafted players and letting them develop and he'll have some other young talent around him over the next few years.
Can't wait to watch him play in the league.

Great news, congratulations Josh.

He has a great attitude and skills so deserves everything that comes to him

How much money do the 36ers get?

"Pretty awkward fit, in my opinion. Duplicates a lot of SGA. Not a lot of guys on the team that will finish his work."

I wonder about that too. I got the sense that SGA could be traded. In the short term, SGA could help Giddey's integration into the NBA.

SGA will be gone

36ers get zero compensation, nothing. He was Next Star on the leagues pocket.

OKC took Sengun as well at 16.
I can see those 2 just killing it as a duo.
Looks like real good picks when put together.

The Houston Rockets traded two first round picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for No. 16 to select Alperen Sengun.

The picks are a 2022 first rounder from the Detroit Pistons and a 2023 first rounder from the Washington Wizards.

My understanding is that the league pays the Next Stars salaries, so if anyone gets "money" for Giddy getting drafted then its the NBL or the NBA Global Academy, however if anyone has a source reference that says the 36ers get money i would love to know those details.

So how much money does the NBL receive?

As others have said Next Star contracts are signed with the NBL not a team just loaned out to a team. The NBL should get all the buyout money but who knows maybe they give the Sixers some for their development of him last season?

The Sixers deserve to get paid.

We were the ones that hired Sloan which gave Giddey all these minutes.

Did my own research since people like to post guesses rather than facts on here and found this from The Advertiser/News Corp published in May behind a paywall:

"The size of the buyout is a closely guarded secret but is likely to be significant. It will be shared between the NBL, the 36ers and..."

What a tease.

Another success of the next stars program. He was predicted to be a late second-round pick before he came to the NBL.

"It will be shared between the NBL, the 36ers and the Australian Taxation Office."

Where are all those posters who insisted deep into the season that there's no way he'd get drafted?

Royce Young:

One thing I wouldn't misread with the Giddey selection: The Thunder are — and always have been — focused on working out an extension for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the next few weeks.

Congrats Josh, however I thought it was weird Adam Silver announced him as being from Melbourne, no mention of the 36ers was odd.

Do colleges get paid for draft picks? If not, why would NBL, 36ers get paid? Colleges sign a player for 4 years and may be gone in 1. Next stars sign a guy for a year, then have no hold on him.

Might've been intentional re: the Mitch Creek affair in 2018.

Do colleges get paid for draft picks? If not, why would NBL, 36ers get paid? Colleges sign a player for 4 years and may be gone in 1. Next stars sign a guy for a year, then have no hold on him.

Great news for Josh, a few picks earlier than i think most people were guessing. SGA is going nowhere, and the pick seems to be getting a bit of heat from fans. One thing we know is he has the attitude and work ethic to get better and improve so hopefully he gets the job done. Great day.

He's not American and the fans don’t know anything about him so why are we surprised some are unhappy?

At least Steven Adams had a higher profile, but I reckon they would have been pissed at his selection too, for the same reason.

I think a lot of hate, and this applies to players every year is that he was picked at 6. If he was selected say 12 people would be, hey good upside pick.

This, and the ongoing sick success of lamelo ball, augurs well for the future of the next stars program
Presumably why we're now getting the interest from Europe

OKC buys out Kemba clearing way for more Giddey opportunities.