The wait for Maxime Raynaud came to an end a dozen selections into the second night of the NBA draft.

The Sacramento Kings took the 7-foot-1 center from Stanford with the 42nd overall pick of the draft, making Raynaud the first Cardinal men’s basketball player to hear his name called since Ziaire Williams went 10th overall to the New Orleans Pelicans in 2021.

Raynaud, 22, averaged 20.2 points and 10.6 rebounds per game as a senior for the Cardinal while earning first-team all-ACC honors.

He was ranked as the 26th-best player in the class by ESPN, which considered him the best player still available when the second round began. According to many experts, Raynaud should have heard his name called Wednesday, during the draft’s first round.

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Born in Paris, Raynaud moved to the United States after high school to pursue basketball and didn’t begin to blossom until the second half of his four years at Stanford. After the school hired Kevin Smith to lead the program following his sophomore year, Raynaud considered transferring, but he stuck around and became a permanent fixture for the Cardinal, starting 33 of a possible 37 games while earning the Pac-12’s most improved player as a junior.

Only Cooper Flagg, the No. 1 overall pick from Duke, earned more votes for the all-conference team than Raynaud this past season.

Before arriving at Stanford, Raynaud played for Espoirs Nanterre, where he was a teammate of Victor Wembanyama, the first overall pick in 2023, and has also twice won international medals with the French national team. He was considered a strong possibility for the Celtics, who held the second pick of the second round (No. 32 overall), but they opted for another Frechman, 6-foot-7 forward Noah Penda, instead.