The Washington Wizards yesterday exercised the third-year rookie scale crew choice for guard/ahead Bilal Coulibaly.
By way of three video games this season, the second-year professional is averaging 16.0 factors, 4.7 rebounds, and three.3 assists per recreation on .500 taking pictures from the sphere. Coulibaly notched a career-high 23 factors in opposition to Cleveland on Oct. 26, additionally tying his profession excessive with 4 made threes.
The Courbevoie, France native performed for his dwelling nation throughout the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, showing in six video games and contributing to a silver medal-winning French crew.
In his rookie marketing campaign, Coulibaly ranked sixth amongst rookies in whole steals and blocks and was within the prime 10 for factors (ninth) and rebounds (eighth) on the time of his season-ending damage. He was the second-youngest participant to seem in a recreation final season, averaging 8.4 factors, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per recreation, with a taking pictures share of .435 from the sphere and .346 from three-point vary.
