Media day is always fun-spirited with good vibes across the league, as players and coaches typically give the most PR-friendly answers in regard to tough questions being asked. With no games being played yet, there's little reason to get too high or low based on answers from media day, but a wild proposition from Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II may say otherwise, as Lively II claimed at media day to have grown to 7-foot-2 or 7-foot-3 over the summer.
Lively II is already officially listed at 7-foot-1, so this claimed growth would give him even more length and verticality than he already has, which is truly tantalizing considering he's already one of the best rim protectors in the league when fully healthy and dialed in.