Catching up on the NBA draft, Duke perspective

A busy week.

Well, the NBA draft didn’t go as expected. Like it ever does.

But even with that proviso, I wasn’t expecting what we got.

Let’s start with the non-salacious stuff.

Jared McCain went to Philadelphia, with the 16^th pick; about where we expected.

At first I thought this was a pretty good landing spot for McCain. The Sixers are built around 7-0 superstar Joel Embiid and 6-5 star Tyrese Maxey. The best way to maximize a 7-0 superstar is to surround him with floor-spacing shooters and floor-spacing-shooter is McCain’s super-power.