Brazilian ahead Gui Santos has submitted paperwork to the league workplace to make himself eligible for the 2021 NBA draft, his agent Aylton Tesch of A11 Sports activities Administration advised ESPN.
Santos, the No. 33 prospect within the ESPN 2022 mock draft, is having a productive season as a starter within the Brazilian first division for Minas Tênis Clube, who’re in second place with a 26-Four report. The 6-foot-Eight, 18-year-old ahead is averaging Eight.5 factors, 5.7 rebounds and 1.7 assists per sport, taking pictures 37% on Three-pointers.
He was one among 13 gamers invited to the Nike Hoop Summit World Group earlier this month, a prestigious honor. He initially put himself on the NBA radar on the NBA’s Basketball With out Borders Americas camp in 2019.
He was additionally a key member of the Brazilian senior nationwide staff lineup within the FIBA Americup Qualifiers window in November, and was anticipated to do the identical within the February FIBA window earlier than Brazil’s video games had been postponed as a consequence of COVID journey restrictions.
As a consequence of his youth and the shortage of scouting alternatives brought on by the pandemic, Santos was not initially anticipated to be part of the 2021 NBA draft class. Constructive suggestions acquired from groups, in addition to the removing of NBA journey restrictions for scouting functions led him to enter the draft to guage his probabilities of listening to his identify referred to as, his agent stated. The Brazilian playoffs will begin this week and Minas will try and win its first league championship in membership historical past.
Powerfully constructed, with a 7-foot wingspan that permits him to play greater than his top, Santos sees time at each ahead spots, being requested to do some little bit of every little thing for the Belo Horizonte primarily based staff due to his versatile skill-set and talent to defend a number of positions. He is usually tasked with bringing the ball up and getting his staff into their offense, seeing fairly just a few possessions initiating decide and roll units or attacking mismatches one on one. The liberty he enjoys offensively and the chance he is acquired this season is considerably of a rarity at this stage of competitors, as he sees important taking part in time in each the Brazilian league and the Basketball Champions League Americas, a pan-continental league for the highest groups in South America, which his staff completed in third place.