WATCH: Virginia F Ryan Dunn Reacts to Hearing Name Called at 2024 NBA Draft

Ryan Dunn shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected in the first round by the Denver Nuggets in the 2024 NBA Draft at Barclays Center.
Ryan Dunn shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected in the first round by the Denver Nuggets in the 2024 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. / Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
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Ryan Dunn became the 12th player in Virginia men's basketball program history to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft on Wednesday night, as the Denver Nuggets selected Dunn with the 28th overall pick, which was traded to the Phoenix Suns. Watch the moment Dunn heard his name called by NBA commissioner Adam Silver in the video below:

Dunn is the fifth Cavalier to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft in Tony Bennett's tenure at UVA, joining Justin Anderson (2015), De'Andre Hunter (2019), Ty Jerome (2019), and Trey Murphy III (2021), who was Virginia's most recent draft pick. Bennett has now produced 10 NBA Draft picks in his time at Virginia and Dunn became the program's 42nd all-time NBA Draft pick.

The video below is a collection of all of the individual press conferences for every player who was selected in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft on Wednesday night. To hear Ryan Dunn field questions from the media about getting drafted and beginning his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns, watch the video linked below beginning at the 2:59:26 timestamp.

Phoenix Suns general manager James Jones also held a press conference to discuss his move to trade back to the 28th pick and draft Ryan Dunn. Watch his full press conference following the first round in the video below:

The Phoenix Suns official Twitter account has posted some more great content from Wednesday night following Dunn's draft selection, including a video of Dunn introducing himself to the Suns fanbase and photographs of Dunn the moment he heard his name called and of him and his family wearing Suns hats for the first time.

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Managing Editor and Publisher, CavaliersNow Email: mattnewton@virginia.eduTwitter: @mattynewtssWebsite | LinkedIn | Instagram Matt Newton is the managing editor and publisher at CavaliersNow. He has been covering UVA athletics since 2019 and has been the managing editor at CavaliersNow since launching the site in August 2021. Matt covers all things UVA sports, including Virginia basketball and football news and recruiting, former Wahoos in the pros, and coverage of all 23 of the NCAA Division I sports teams at the University of Virginia. A native of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Matt grew up a huge Philadelphia sports fan, but has also been a UVA sports fanatic his entire life thanks to his parents, who are alums of the University of Virginia. Matt followed in his parents' footsteps and attended UVA from 2017-2021, graduating with a degree in Media Studies and a minor in Economics in May of 2021.