Which NBA Team Drafted Kermit Wilts At The End Of Hustle?
Kermit Wilts' NBA future isn't revealed in Hustle's ending, leaving viewers to wonder which basketball team drafted the young star. Adam Sandler's Netflix movie makes a very conscious effort to portray the NBA landscape in as realistic of a way as possible. This meant putting real-life NBA players in Hustle's cast to recreate the professional sports league faithfully, even if the story centered around Bo Cruz (Juancho Hernangómez) is entirely fictional. His rival throughout the film, Anthony Edwards' Kermit Wilts, also plays an important role and should have a bright NBA future ahead of him.
For most of Hustle's runtime, Bo Cruz is the underdog for the upcoming NBA Draft as an international prospect no one ever heard of before Stanley Sugerman (Adam Sandler) found him. Kermit Wilts is on the opposite end, as he's a well-known draft prospect. The trash-talking, high-flying scorer is portrayed as the best young basketball player in the draft. Even though Bo gets the best of Kermit in the final game, Hustle's ending only shows that Bo Cruz got drafted by the Boston Celtics and makes no mention of what happened to Kermit Wilts.
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Figuring out which NBA team drafted Kermit Wilts in Hustle's universe is a bit tricky to pin down. Based on the NBA rosters teased at the movie's finale and the landscape of the league as a whole, it appears that Hustle takes place in a fictionalized version of 2021 and the leadup to the 2021 NBA Draft. The movie also presents Kermit Wilts as a top prospect, even though a player named Zeke Washington is mentioned as a lock to go first overall. All signs point to Kermit Wilts being a top-three NBA draft pick after Hustle's ending. In real life, the
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