Seventeen years after Gerald Wallace played one season of basketball for Alabama, then became a first-round pick in the NBA Draft, Collin Sexton did the same thing. Yet they're part of the same NBA trade, even though Wallace played his final NBA game on April 15, 2015.

On Thursday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Sexton with the eighth choice in the 2018 NBA Draft, using the final unspent asset from a blockbuster trade that occurred on June 12, 2013.

In that trade, the Boston Celtics sent Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Terry, D.J. White (who starred at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa), a 2017 first-round pick and a 2017 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for Wallace, Keith Bogans, MarShon Brooks, Kris Humphries and first-round picks in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Entering Thursday night's draft, the 2018 pick was the only blank left in the trade, and it was used on Sexton.

So why isn't Sexton a Celtic?

On Aug. 30, 2017, Boston sent that pick, along with Jae Crowder, Isaiah Thomas, Ante Zizic and a 2020 second-round pick to the Cavaliers for Kyrie Irving.

A prep standout at Childersburg, Wallace spent the final two of his 14 NBA seasons with the Celtics. Wallace had entered the NBA as the 25th selection in the 2001 NBA Draft

Wallace played his first three NBA seasons as a reserve for the Sacramento Kings before the Charlotte Bobcats chose him in the 2004 expansion draft. He spent seven seasons as a starter for Charlotte and played in the 2010 NBA All-Star Game. Wallace recorded career-high averages of 18.2 points and 10.0 rebounds per game that season.

He finished his career with stints with the Portland Trail Blazers, Nets and Celtics. Among Alabama's NBA alumni, Wallace ranks sixth in games with 832, third in rebounds with 4,838 and sixth in points with 10,759.

Alabama guard Collin Sexton (right) shakes hands with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after the Cleveland Cavaliers selected him with the eighth choice in the NBA Draft on June 21, 2018, in New York.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.