Twenty-year-old identical twins have made history in the 2023 NBA draft. Ausar and Amen Thompson were recently chosen to go into the Top 5 together. According to ESPN, this makes them the first pair of brothers since the 1996 NBA-ABA merger.
Amen was chosen as No. 4 while Ausar was chosen as No. 5 in the 2023 NBA draft. Amen will be playing for the Houston Rockets and Ausar will be playing for the Detroit Pistons.
During an interview on the Today show, the twins shared the vision boards that they'd made as kids. Those vision boards expressed their desires to play in the NBA.
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Now that the two have accomplished their initial goal of making it into the NBA, they have some updates to make to their boards. Amen shared that he has to revise his. "Make a new one, dream board 2.0, I guess," he said. "I got to figure out what I got to put on it. I'm going to put it on my wall though. I'm going to do it again."
"I'm going to make one too: win a championship. Hopefully I get to play him," Ausar said of his brother. "Maybe it’s a rivalry. Hopefully I get to beat him in the championship. It would only be right."
Growing up, the brothers played basketball on the same teams. Before the draft, they were team members of Overtime Elite, which is a league that is another option to playing in college or overseas for 16- to 20-year-olds.
With their amazing skills, the twins have made hisotry as the highest-picked brothers to ever be picked in the Top 5. "It felt like a dream come true to hear my name called. And then to hear his, what, five minutes later. I wasn't even out the [backstage] yet," Amen shared.
"It was surreal to go back-to-back, be the first brothers in the same draft drafted in the Top 10, and we got Top 5 as well," Ausar added. "We set two records, so that felt great."
According to the twins, their parents and other brother are to be credited for helping them reach their goal. "I felt like it was very special to have the people that's been supporting me my whole life, always have my back, always guide me in the right way. It just meant a lot to have them here with me," Ausar shared. And Amen added, "They were there to help me come up with my dream. They were there to support me through everything, so them being there meant everything."
