Hey there, it's Gary Parrish. It's Thursday October 6th and this is of course the Ion College

basketball park as I got met. Noil I know with me and we're only about a month away from

the start of the season now and we now know Duke's Harry Giles is not going to be in uniform

when it begins or at least we know he won't be playing when it begins. That's the big news

from this week a third knee surgery since 2013 he's torn both ACLs. He had been rehabbing

that one since last November the latest ACL injury and now had to have out the Scopic

surgery that's going to keep him sideline in additional six weeks at least. Noil, and

you spent some time with Harry Giles over the years. How big of a setback is this for

the player who some projected to be the top pick in the 2017 NBA draft?

I think this is notable. Now listen, it is a knee scope. It's not major surgery. It's

basically outpatient surgery. This is the kind of thing that athletes on the regular

get at the pro level. But the fact of the matter is Harry Giles has needed surgical procedures

on his knees three times over the course of basically two and a half years. He is a big

man. And to me, listen, I actually love his game. He was my favorite prospect in his

class and I wrote a huge feature on him last year prior to his second major knee injury.

And at that point, after I wrote the feature and had watched him, to me, he was unequivocally

the top player in the class. The guy who I would take number one. Now because of all of

this, I would say it's borderline irresponsible for any GM to say that he would take Giles

number one simply because he's a big man. We look at what's at now. I know it's different

injuries, but Joel and Beat is only finally getting on the floor for the sixers. Obviously,

we look at Greg Odin who had such a terrific one and done year with Ohio State. His career

completely collapsed because of injuries over the years. There are so many examples over

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