NBA Draft Prospect Profiles: Why Parrish and Norlander disagree so much on LaMelo Ball's draft stock
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In the lead-up to October's NBA Draft, the podcast will be adding more episodes to your weekly feed that include breezy but knowledgeable discussions on the biggest and best prospects in the 2020 draft pool. This is the first of those episodes, and LaMelo Ball is the subject because Gary Parrish has him slotted atop his mock draft. We hope you enjoy some bonus pod content in addition to the regularly scheduled episodes.
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| 0:57.3 | In the 2020 NBA draft, what we're going to do I think is just take them in the order that I have |
| 1:03.5 | them in my latest mock draft. So we're going to start today with my little homie, |
| 1:08.6 | Lamello, bar is a six foot seven point guard. Obviously LeVar's youngest son, Lanzo's |
| 1:13.6 | little brother from California, but he's also spent the past few years playing in Lithuania, |
| 1:18.7 | in Ohio, in Australia, played in the NBA, this past season gets professionals as an 18-year-old. |
| 1:25.1 | Incredible pass or incredible playmaker simply put, when I look at everybody in the 2020 NBA |
| 1:31.2 | draft, I think Lamello ball has the best chance to be an all-star many times over. Highest |
| 1:37.3 | upside best potential and that's why I think you should go number one overall in the 2020 NBA draft. |
| 1:42.9 | But Norlander, I know you disagree. You don't even have Lamello in your top five. So let's start |
| 1:49.0 | there. Basically everybody has Lamello in the top five. You have him seven. What makes you so |
| 1:55.3 | skeptical of the youngest ball brother? A lot, but I'll start by saying this GP. I actually |
| 2:02.8 | thrilled and relieved that we actually have something we genuinely disagree on because |
| 2:06.9 | I think we tend to agree more times than not, which makes for a good podcast, but it is good |
| 2:10.7 | to find genuine disagreement here and we are not on the same page. I assume whenever we get to |
| 2:16.0 | that draft in October, whether we're in our own houses or we are allowed to be on the same set for |
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