Tennessee’s Jarnell Stokes shoots during practice for the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinal college basketball tournament game in Indianapolis.Check out the latest edition on NBADraft.net and you’ll find former University of Tennessee post player Jarnell Stokes going to Philadelphia with the 47th overall pick in tonight’s NBA draft. Search DraftExpress.com and Stokes is projected to go 26th to Miami with former Volunteers teammate Jordan McRae slotted for 59th to Toronto.
Visit cbssports.com and that website has Stokes going anywhere from 26th to 28th.
Said Stokes on the Bleacher Report website earlier this week: “I feel like I can help a team by doing the little things that winning teams need in order to become a great team — rebounding, toughness, just that mindset that I bring to the game.”
There is both much intrigue and much talent sprinkled throughout tonight’s draft, which just might be the deepest in memory, possibly going back to the spectacular 1984 draft that ushered Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Akeem Olajuwon, Michael Cage and John Stockton into the league.
And for anyone who might have forgotten that Kentucky’s oft-injured Sam Bowie went ahead of MJ in that draft, there’s a potential replay of that much-maligned decision by the Portland Trail Blazers with this year’s Joel Embiid, whose murky medical profile calls to mind Bowie’s leg troubles both before and after the draft.