Shamet was on Tang Tian's list, so no matter how the Bogdan trade turned out, there was nothing wrong with this pick.
The draft continued and soon reached the very end of the first round.
Dempsey quickly made the 30th pick as well.
Unlike the Shamet selection, there was no real hesitation over this one.
The player he wanted was also ranked first on Tang Tian's list.
Tatum stepped out from behind the scenes for the last time in this draft.
He was about to announce the final first-round pick of the draft.
"With the 30th pick in the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft, the New Orleans Pelicans select Mitchell Robinson, a 216-centimeter center from New Orleans."
This was the final rookie Tatum announced this year, but the wording was quite different from that used for other rookies.
Normally, for overseas prospects who had not played in the NCAA, the announcement would state which country they came from.
For players with NCAA experience, whether international or American, it would state which school they attended.
But announcing that a player came from a particular city, as with Robinson, was truly unprecedented.
It was not because the envelope was written incorrectly, nor because Tatum had wanted to do something special at the last second. It was because Robinson was a very special rookie.
Once a Top 10 high school prospect in the nation, he possessed elite physical talent for an interior player and could even shoot threes.
His wingspan was especially astonishing. He had averaged an incredible 6.3 blocks per game in high school, with rim-rattling dunks and volleyball-style blocks appearing regularly.
After graduating from high school, he had also been admitted to NCAA powerhouse University of Kentucky.
Following the normal path, he should have made a name for himself