Aday Mara already knows his destiny in the NBA: The Oklahoma City Thunder!

Aday Mara has already fulfilled his dream and already knows what his destiny will be in the NBA. After falling out of the Top-10 of the Draft, the Aragonese center formerly of Casademont Zaragoza and NCAA champion with the University of Michigan, will play for the Oklahoma City Thunder, a franchise that selected him during the night of the Draft with the twelfth pick.

While a priori it was expected that the interior could be selected from the eighth pick, belonging to the Atlanta Hawks, finally Aday Mara has ended up being the third player from the University of Michigan to be chosen in lottery positions after Morez Johnson Jr., the great surprise of the Top-10 by the Dallas Mavericks, and after Yaxel Lendeborg, just one pick before the Spanish center.

With the arrival of the Zaragoza native to the league with the Thunder, he enters the history of Spanish basketball as the fourth national player to emerge highest in an NBA Draft after Pau Gasol, Ricky Rubio and Fran Vázquez.

For the Thunder, these add to an interior with a great defensive presence in an extremely competitive context, as OKC continues to be one of the main candidates for the title for the next 2026-27 campaign. Therefore, we will have to see what the role will be in his first year for a player who was Michigan’s top blocker and who was instrumental in the Wolverines’ achievement of the national title.

On the other hand, an unbeatable first destination for the Spanish center, who will have as a partner a two-time MVP like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in the last two seasons, as well as share a position with Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein, from whom news about his future is expected soon.