“I don’t know that I should go No. 1. I don’t care. I just want to go to the right environment for me and the right team. I think the hype about No. 1 is more for the fans.”
– Jahlil Okafor, for some reason, in an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Maggie Gray.
In the weeks leading up to the NBA draft, most draft prospects say things like Stanley Johnson when he told Jay King of MassLive.com at the Draft Combine “I’m the best player in the draft.” Players are instructed by their “people” to say and do the right things to climb as high as they can on that special June day.