Even after a somewhat underwhelming Summer League campaign from the Lakers’ second overall pick in the 2016 draft, fans are still high on Duke product, Brandon Ingram and for good reason.
Averaging 12.2 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists in just around 27 minutes a contest during their five game campaign in Las Vegas, expectations for the 6’9 rookie grew exponentially after Kevin Durant‘s comments about him during Team USA training camp.
With comments like, “he’s [Ingram] a little farther along than I was at that stage,” and that he’s the “first person I can say that I can look at him and feel like I’m looking in the mirror” if expectations weren’t already high enough, KD provided fans with a little bit more to be excited about and critics with a little more fuel for their hard hate.