But the Houston Rockets have one of the top up-and-coming players in the league, too, and he was drafted just three spots later. Amen Thompson, Houston’s 6-foot-6 guard-forward hybrid, proved he was just that in an in-state victory on Wednesday night.

I understand like when you’re a competitor, you’re gonna make mistakes like that,” Giannis Antetokounmpo says of Amen Thompson’s flagrant-two foul.