New York – In the first surprise of the 2025 NBA draft, Utah jazz Took a swing on the moving rutgars Ace BaileyOne of the greatest talents – and mysteries – in this year’s class.

After Jazz carried her with number 5 pick, Utah President of Basketball Operations Austin Ang told ESPN, “We really like him as a player and is a fit in our program.”

Belly said that he had “no idea”, Jazz was interested in draft him. Utah was also not one of his favorite sites, a source under the leadership of NBA Draft to Jonathan Givoni of ESPN.

But Bailey said that he believes that he will be well with his new colleagues.

“I think once I come in, it is very working,” he said. “I think I am a person who likes to do a lot of work. I am going to push my colleagues to be the best. I want to be a leader and a leader as a young cat.”

Jazz also landed Florida Star Walter Clayton Junior.Was taken by Washington wizards With number 18 picks, the second round pics in 2031 and 2032 before doing trading in Utah for Nag 21 and 43.

Belly’s predecessor strategy was a major source of intrigue in the days to the draft. He was introduced as the top-three picks for most of the season and entered number 3 in the list of top 100 possibilities of ESPN on Wednesday, but he was the only American player who entered the draft night, did not exercise a single exercise with the NBA team.

This winded the notion that Bailey and his camp had a favorite destination in the mind that was outside the top five, and as a result, he began to drop the draft estimates down. In ESPN’s final mock draft, he was estimated to go to Wizards at number 6.

There was a possibility of a warm debate between the Bailey NBA teams in all the season. The 6 -Foot -9 shoes have a tentalizing shotmaking ability, they have a large wing size, the most valuable located archtip in the league. But Belly is also not particularly efficient and a ball is an important place to improve as a handler and passer -by.

Entering the draft, Washington examined several boxes for Bailey, which is from Chatanogo, Tennessi, but grew up in Atlanta. Vizards, which are in the middle of a reconstruction, is a tough requirement of a tentpole star, a player who can grow as a leading scorer in a high-level team-something belly, if he attains excellence, it is favorable.

But Jazz, who had the worst record of NBA in the previous season, is in the same position at 17-65, and he was not stopping Belly from taking it just because he did not get a chance to work.

The roster of Utah has a lot of space for the operation of Bailey and will lead to one of the best coaches of the league in Will Hardy, who agreed to a long -term expansion with the franchise.

Bailey said he was happy to end with the draft process.

“I’m ready to play some basketball now,” he said. “It has been just a great journey. I am working hard, pushing myself physically and mentally, just getting ready for the next level.”