(File Photo: Source for Photo: Arkansas forward Adou Thiero, right, controls the ball in front of Texas A&M guard Hayden Hefner on Feb. 15. The Lakers acquired Thiero, the 36th pick of the NBA draft, in a trade with Minnesota on Thursday. (Sam Craft / Associated Press)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Brooklyn, NY) A former Quaker Valley High School basketball player was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night as the 36th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Adou Thiero is a junior in college who started playing college basketball at the University of Kentucky and then transferred to the University of Arkansas. Thiero followed the move there with Moon Township native and head coach John Calipari. The Lakers made trades to get the rights to draft Thiero on to their team in the second round of the 2025 NBA draft.