Duke’s Kyle Filipowski is selected in the NBA Draft by Utah, one day later than expected

After being left in the NBA Draft green room Wednesday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center while going undrafted in the first round, Duke’s Kyle Filipowski finally heard his name called on Thursday in lower Manhattan.

The Utah Jazz selected the 6-11 Filipowski with the No. 32 overall pick, the second person taken when the draft resumed for the second round at ESPN’s Seaport District Studios.

Considered such a lock for the first round that he was one of 25 players the NBA invited to attend the draft’s first round, Filipowski surprisingly wasn’t taken in the first 30 picks. He and Kansas’ Johnny Furphy were the only two of the 24 players in the green room who weren’t picked Wednesday night.

Filipowski started all 72 games for Duke over the last two seasons as the Blue Devils posted consecutive 27-9 season. He was the Everett Case Award winner as the ACC Tournament’s most valuable player as a freshmen when the Blue Devils won the league championship. Last season, he was named second-team, all-American as he led Duke in scoring and rebounding for the second consecutive season.

As a sophomore, in addition to averaging 16.4 points and 8.3 rebounds, Filipowski also led Duke in steals (1.1 per game) as well as blocked shots (1.5).

Still, it took until Utah took him in the second round for Filipowski to learn where he’d begin his NBA career.

This is a developing story and will be updated