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I needed to kill some time and I found a pre-draft interview with a former player (who played all over the world) and the two guys he mentioned as having superstar potential were Trae Young and Mo Bamba, in that order. Before you get all excited, he also said that Doncic was questionable in the lottery! His name is Rashad Phillips. Check the interview with Chris Broussard here

If you look at every center drafted in the first round over the past 15 years they generally average something in like the 8 ppg 6 rpg 1bpg range (+/- 2 points and rebounds per game). There are exceptions like towns and both okafors but even future elite centers tend to struggle early like gobert, Steven Adams, Al Jefferson, Noah, and so on. Bamba is going to spend at least the first part of the year learning behind vucevic. Bamba is joining a team that isnt bottoming out. He's not going to get unlimited usage. He's going to fill a role and play into that role for a while while Fournier, Gordon, Simmons, Ross, and vucevic take shots. Other players (Trae Young, Kevin Knox, Sexton) are going to have a bigger role on their teams. We really need to lower expectations for Bamba this year as he doesn't need to get there all at once. A good baseline for first year Bamba should be basic counting stats that exceed what Biyombo did last year (with better advanced stats impact). That's not to say that's who he'll be as a player, but it is what he should be as a rookie

I don't think he has a good shot at being rookie of the year at all

Mo will be rookie of the year.

He is right about luka, he has slow feet. Still a lottery pick but not sure how well he does in nba. I think he was right about the two players with the “it” factor. At least I’m hoping so for Mo!!!!

I hate that crap. It should just be black borders.

thats awesome!

Isn’t this where we just say AG like every year?

It's hard to get used to watching games in 4:3 standard definition again. Are they gonna keep that ind vs orl 95 east finals game 2 box on the screen the whole game?

Thanks for the heads up.