{"id":768884,"date":"2026-06-24T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/768884\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:42:14","slug":"nba-draft-grizzlies-select-dukes-cameron-boozer-at-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/768884\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft: Grizzlies select Duke’s Cameron Boozer at No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> selected Duke forward Cameron Boozer with the third pick in the NBA draft Tuesday night, adding another high pick in their latest rebuilding project. <\/p>\n

Boozer joins 7-foot-3 center Zach Edey, the ninth overall pick in 2024, and Cedric Coward, the 11th selection a year ago and member of the All-NBA rookie team. <\/a><\/p>\n

The 6-8, 253-pound Boozer is the son of former Duke and NBA player Carlos Boozer. He was the fifth freshman voted AP men\u2019s national player of the year<\/a>. Boozer joins Edey, a two-time AP men\u2019s<\/a> national player of the year, in Memphis.<\/p>\n

Boozer<\/a> averaged 22.5 points and 10.2 rebounds while helping Duke win 35 games and reach No. 1 in the AP Top 25 poll<\/a>. The Blue Devils claimed the top overall seed for March Madness<\/a> and reached the NCAA Tournament\u2019s Elite Eight. <\/p>\n

He showed the kind of toughness the Grizzlies can use after so many injuries over the past couple seasons. Boozer finished a loss to UConn with 27 points despite suffering multiple facial fractures<\/a> in the first half. <\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Memphis Grizzlies selected Duke forward Cameron Boozer with the third pick in the NBA draft Tuesday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2097,7,17047,2766,3522,691,177,6,446,12,66,689,483,1083],"class_list":["post-768884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-associated-press","tag-basketball","tag-cameron-boozer","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-cedric-coward","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-draft","tag-sports","tag-tennessee","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-zach-edey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116802312169158407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}