NBA Draft 2017: Pacers pick Leaf, Anigbogu from UCLA, Sumner from Xavier

The Indiana Pacers select T.J. Leaf from UCLA with the 18th pick in Thursday's NBA Draft. The 6-10 forward averaged 16.3 points and 8.2 rebounds for the Bruins in his lone season. He shot 61.7 percent from the field, including 46.6 percent on 3-pointers.

His father, Brad, played for Lawrence North High School. The Pacers picked him in the seventh round of the 1982 draft out of the University of Evansville.

What advice did Brad Leaf give T.J. Leaf?

"No. 1, just be a professional about it," Leaf said on ESPN after being picked. "Just playing basketball the right way."

The Pacers took Ike Anigbogu, a center form UCLA, 47th overall.

The Pacers also took Xavier guard Edmond Sumner at No. 52 after acquiring the pick from the Pelicans.

Paul George remained with the Pacers through the draft. 

Other moves of local interest: IU's OG Anunoby goes No. 23 to Toronto and Purdue's Caleb Swanigan goes 26th to Portland. Also, Utah traded Tech High School's Trey Lyles to Denver. 

The Los Angeles Lakers took IU's Thomas Bryant with the 42nd pick. The Suns got Alec Peters, a forward from Valparaiso, at No. 54.

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Here's some of the reaction to the Pacers' first-round pick: 

And then people went rummaging through Leaf's Twitter profile.

THE REST OF THE FIRST ROUND (SECOND ROUND BELOW)

30th pick: The Lakers select Josh Hart, a guard from Villanova.

29th pick: The Spurs select Derrick White, a wing from Colorado.

28th pick: The Jazz select Tony Bradley, a center from North Carolina.

TRADE ALERT: The Jazz get the No. 28 pick from the Lakers, who will get pick Nos. 30 and 42.

27th pick: The Lakers select Kyle Kuzma from Utah.

26th pick: The Trail Blazers select Caleb Swanigan, a forward from Purdue.

25th pick: The Magic select Andzejs Pasecniks, a center from Latvia. He's the second international player taken. (He was later traded to the Sixers for picks in 2020.)

24th pick: The Jazz select Tyler Lydon from Syracuse.

TRADE ALERT: The Grizzlies get the 35th pick from the Magic for a second-round pick next year.

23rd pick: The Raptors select OG Anunoby, a wing from Indiana.

22nd pick: The Nets select Jarrett Allen, a center from Texas. That's a record 15 freshmen in the first round.

21st pick: The Thunder select Terrance Ferguson, a wing who played one season in Australia instead of attenting college for a year.

20th pick: The Kings select Harry Giles, a center from Duke.

19th pick: The Hawks select John Collins, a power forward from Wake Forest.

17th pick: The Bucks select D.J. Wilson, a forward from Michigan.

16th pick: The Timberwolves select Justin Patton, a center from Creighton.

15th pick: The Kings select Justin Jackson, a wing from North Carolina.

14th pick: The Heat select Bam Adebayo, a center from Kentucky. That's three draft picks from Kentucky.

13th pick: The Jazz select Donovan Mitchell, a guard from Louisville.

TRADE ALERT: Tech's Trey Lyles and the 24th pick are traded by the Jazz to the Nuggets. Utah gets the 13th pick.

That's two Mr. Basketball winners on the Nuggets. Gary Harris of Hamilton Southeastern is their starting shooting guard.

12th pick: The Pistons select Luke Kennard, a shooting guard from Duke. First sophomore taken.

11th pick: The Hornets select Malik Monk, a guard from Kentucky.

10th pick: The Trail Blazers take Zach Collins, a forward from Gonzaga.

TRADE ALERT: The Kings trade the 10th pick to the Trail Blazers for the Nos. 15 and 20 picks.

Ninth pick: The Mavericks select Dennis Smith, a guard from North Carolina State.

Eighth pick: The Knicks select Frank Ntilinkina, an 18-year-old guard from France. All the picks have been college freshmen or, in the case, a player of similar age.

Seventh pick: The Bulls, with the pick they got from the Timberwolves, select Lauri Markkanen, a forward from Arizona.

Sixth pick: The Magic select Jonathan Isaac, a forward from Florida State.

Fifth pick: The Kings select De'Aaron Fox, a guard from Kentucky. That's eight straight years for a UK player taken in the first round.

Fourth pick: The Suns select Josh Jackson, a wing from Kansas.

Third pick: The Celtics select Jayson Tatum, a wing from Duke.

Second pick: The Lakers select Lonzo Ball, a guard from UCLA. (You may have heard of Lonzo's father.)

TRADE ALERT: Several reports that the Timberwolves send Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn and the seventh pick to the Bulls for Jimmy Butler and the 16th pick.

First pick: The Sixers select Markelle Fultz, a guard from Washington.

SECOND ROUND

31: The Hornets select Frank Jackson, a point guard from Duke.

32: Suns select Davon Reed, a Miami wing.

33: The Magic select Wesley Iwundu, a forward from Kansas State.

34: The Kings select Frank Mason, a guard from Kansas

35: The Grizzlies select Ivan Rabb, a forward from California. 

36: The Sixers select Jonah Bolden, a forward who played overseas last season. He also played for UCLA.

37: The Celtics select Semi Ojelyey, a forward from SMU.

38: The Bulls select Jordan Bell, a post player from Oregon. The Bulls will trade him to the Warriors for $3.5 million.

39: The Sixers select Jawun Evans, a point guard from Oklahoma State. (His rights were sold to the Clippers.)

40: The Pelicans select Dwayne Bacon, a guard from Florida State.

41: The Hawks select Tyler Dorsey, a guard from Oregon. 

42: The Lakers select Thomas Bryant, a center from Indiana.

43: The Rockets select Isaiah Hartenstein, a forward from Germany.

44: The Knicks selected Damyean Dotson, a guard from Houston.

45: The Grizzlies select Dillon Brooks, a guard from Oregon, after making a trade with the Rockets.

46: The Sixers select Sterling Brown, a guard from SMU.

47: The Pacers pick Ike Anigbogu, a center form UCLA.

48: The Bucks pick Sindarius Thornwell, a forward from South Carolina.

49: The Nuggets take Vlatko Cancar, a forward from Slovenia.

50: The Sixers take Mathias Lessort, a power forward from France.

51: The Nuggets take Monte Morris, a point guard from Iowa State.

52: The Pacers take Edmond Sumner, a guard from Xavier. The got the pick in a track with the Pelicans, who get cash.

53: The Celtics pick Kadeem Allen, a guard from Arizona.

54: The Suns get Alec Peters, a forward from Valparaiso. First Crusaders player drafted since Bryce Drew in 1998.

55: The Jazz pick Nigel Williams-Goss, a guard from Gonzaga.

56: The Celtics take Jabari Bird, a guard from Cal.

57: The Nets take Aleksandar Vezenkov, a forward.

58: The Knicks take Ognjen Jaramaz, a point guard from Serbia.

59: The Spurs take Jaron Blossomgame, a forward from Clemson.

60: The Hawks take Alpha Kaba, a center from France.

PRE-DRAFT

Pacers big man Myles Turner took questions on Twitter during the afternoon. 

Best question he was asked: Do you prefer movies rated R or PG-13? (He enjoyed the question but didn't directly answer.)  Other likes: Pluto as a planet; Whataburger; Starburys; Juwan Evans as a draft sleeper. He's not a fan of pineapple pizza. 

From Purdue's Caleb Swanigan earlier today: