The one thing from Walter Clayton Jr.’s draft night that must be corrected

Florida Gator great Walter Clayton Jr. was drafted 18th overall to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night. It may not have been where he was trying to aim for, as all reports indicated he was trying to land with the Miami Heat, but Clayton was still overcome with joy just for the chance to be drafted.

But because Utah traded up to go grab Clayton, there is now one small detail that will forever be linked to his draft night photo that is bound to be a trivia question down the road.

Walter Clayton Jr. wasn't wearing a Utah Jazz hat

If you were watching the NBA Draft, there were plenty of picks made under a "Proposed Trade." Unlike the NFL Draft where trades are instant, the NBA has a weird mechanism where these trades aren't actually finalized until a later date.

This meant that even though Utah traded some second-round picks to move up three spots with Washington to draft Clayton, the pick itself was officially Washington's pick to then be traded to Utah.

The end result is that Clayton was on stage wearing a Washington Wizards hat even though the only time he is going to step foot in D.C. is when the Jazz go on the road.

Clayton was far from the only player who wound up taking a photo with a hat for a team he isn't going to play for, and ESPN's Scott Van Pelt took to Sportscenter after the Draft to highlight the absurdity of it all:

"I'm gonna scream about the hat situation. The league's too smart to have the moment that they've waited their whole life for be a picture in the wrong hat. It just doesn't make sense. I don't know why they can't fix it."

It's semantics at the end of the day, but it would have been nice for the NBA to allow a moment that we hope becomes an iconic moment to at least have the semantics correct.