EditorialMark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., with Rayan Rupert, a 19-year-old guard from France, during the second round of the 2023 N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn on Thursday night, June 22, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., with Rayan Rupert, a 19-year-old guard from France, during the second round of the 2023 N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn on Thursday night, June 22, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., with Rayan Rupert, a 19-year-old guard from France, during the second round of the 2023 N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn on Thursday night, June 22, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., with Rayan Rupert, a 19-year-old guard from France, during the second round of the 2023 N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn on Thursday night, June 22, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Tatum, the deputy commissioner of the N.B.A., with Rayan Rupert, a 19-year-old guard from France, during the second round of the 2023 N.B.A. draft at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn on Thursday night, June 22, 2023. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)