Gary Trent Jr., a one-and-done at Duke, was taken in the second round and 37th overall in Thursday's NBA draft by Sacramento, then traded to Portland.
The Trail Blazers will give up two future second-rounders to the Kings for the rights to Trent, a former Apple Valley High School standout.
Trent, a 6-6 shooting guard, averaged 14.5 points per game for the Blue Devils, shooting 40.2 percent from three-point range.
The 19-year-old was a Minnesota state high school champion when he was a sophomore and the state's Gatorade Player of the Year as a junior. He decided to forgo his senior season at Apple Valley and enrolled at a California prep school, Prolific Prep in Napa, because it would better prepare him for his collegiate and professional future.
The son of former Timberwolves forward Gary Trent was raised around the NBA. He was primarily a spot-up shooter on a Duke team that had three first-round picks Thursday — Marvin Bagley III (second to Sacramento), Wendell Carter Jr. (seventh to Chicago) and Grayson Allen (21st to Utah).
With two gifted fellow freshmen — Bagley and Carter — doing their work near the basket, Duke needed Trent to find the floor's open spaces and shoot. He broke J.J. Redick's freshman three-point school record by making 97, two more than Redick in 2003.
Trent is part of an Apple Valley pipeline that sent former high school teammates Tyus Jones to Durham for one championship season before him. Tre Jones, Tyus' younger brother, is headed to the Blue Devils next season.
Born nearly four years after his father was drafted 11th overall and dealt to Portland in a draft-day deal by Milwaukee in 1995, Gary Jr. grew up with a dad who coached him and with the game all around him.