Aussie draftee's horror start to NBA career

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Australian NBA draftee Josh Giddey went down with an ankle wounded during Oklahoma City's opening crippled of the Summer League today.

Giddey, who past period was selected astatine No.6 by Thunder successful the NBA draft, officially had his archetypal hit-out successful Thunder colours today.

The 18-year-old was playing successful the Summer League, which is the off-season contention designed for young stars and undrafted endowment to propulsion and gain enactment for the upcoming regular season.

Playing against the Detroit Pistons, Giddey enactment the NBA satellite connected announcement with a thunderous thrust and dunk successful the opening 10 seconds of the game.

But conscionable moments later, the six-foot-eight Australian fell awkwardly and had to spell to the locker country with trainers earlier helium was yet ruled retired for the remainder of the game.

The squad announced soon aft that Giddey suffered a near ankle sprain.

The severity of the wounded remains unclear astatine this stage.

Giddey's accomplishment successful the NBA follows a play successful the NBL with the Adelaide 36ers, successful which helium claimed Rookie of the Year honours.

He averaged 10.8 points, 7.4 rebounds, 7.4 assists and 1.1 steals for the 36ers successful the NBL past season.

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