Not the 2024 Draft so I couldn't put it there but great article on Khaman Maluach, "a 7-foot-2 center who shoots 3s, dribbles between his legs, is unstoppable at the rim and a prolific shot blocker at age 17":
https://theathletic.com/5308052/2024/03/05/khaman-maluach-nba-draft-academy-africa-wembanyama/.
Of note, Maluach lives in Senegal but was 3 years ago he moved from where he was living - Uganda, after fleeing war-torn South Sudan - and went to the NBA's year-round academy in Saly, Senegal. One snip from the article:
Maluach said he was too young to remember South Sudan before he left, and he never experienced war personally. He said his father stayed behind to work, while he, his mother and brothers lived with family members in a neighborhood of Uganda’s capital city, Kampala. He grew up there playing soccer and looking down on the tops of most people’s heads. He was already about 6-7 by the time he was invited to watch a basketball camp hosted by NBA veteran Luol Deng, who, like Maluach, was born in Sudan.
“Where I am from, not everybody’s tall as me,” Maluach said. “Suddenly, I just see people taller than me, and I was like, ‘Wow, there actually are people taller than me on this planet.’ I feel like I just belong there because nobody was surprised about my height.”
Maluach said he returned to the camp the following day and felt the sensation of pounding a basketball against the road and having it pop back against his palm. He watched the run unfolding out on the hot court in front of him, dribbling idly with his right hand, then his left. He remembers going home that same day and pulling up videos of Giannis Antetokounmpo on his cousin’s cell phone, watching him switch his dribble from one hand to the other — a crossover in basketball parlance — before sprinting to the hoop for a dunk.
“He inspired me,” Maluach said of Giannis and those YouTube videos. “That’s when I thought about it and really loved the game.”
The lone basketball court where Maluach lived wasn’t close, a walk of 45 minutes to an hour. But after watching those Giannis videos and dribbling at home, Maluach began making that walk every day, he said, and friends and local coaches taught him the rules of the game.
The three things threatening Maluach’s daily games were the weather (if it rained or was too hot), the scarcity of basketballs and a lack of shoes. Already a size 14 by age 13, Maluach said, he played his first game in a pair of Crocs.
“Size 14 in Uganda? You can’t find it anywhere,” he said. “We have (friends) who are in America, and they would come home during December and bring me either their shoes or somebody else’s shoes, and then I used them for a whole year.”
Self taught from watching YouTube clips of not just Giannis but other NBA stars like Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant, and with that tantalizing size, Maluach’s play on the local court earned him a scholarship offer to a Ugandan private high school. He enrolled in January 2020 and got to stay for about two months before COVID-19 struck.
“We couldn’t play basketball; actually in Uganda, everything was closed,” Maluach said. “Even cars couldn’t move, maybe government cars. So, I was just back in Uganda. I really love basketball, and they just took it away from me.”
Back at home on lockdown, Maluach said he stacked together two or three large tires, reaching about 10 feet, and shot his one basketball through the top tire every day. He’d placed stones under the bottom tire so the ball rolled back to him after a make.
Maluach shot at those tires and worked on his handle at home for a year before the NBA scouts recommended him for scholarship to the academy in Saly.
Sounds like a kid to keep an eye on. He's going to be playing college in the US next year.