SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Brandon Ingram is carrying goals into his rookie season, one of them being to win NBA Rookie of the Year honors.
"Absolutely, I would be lying if I said I wasn't," the Los Angeles Lakers forward and No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 draft said at Media Day on Monday. "And I think I'm going to work extremely hard to do that."
But Ingram's quest toward that award will begin on the bench rather than being in the starting lineup.
"That drives me," Ingram said. "If it was given, it wouldn't drive me as much to be the best player that I can be.