Jalen Pickett admitted it took him some time to come around on the nickname.
“Grandpa,” a moniker bestowed on him by some of his coaches growing up in Rochester, isn’t quite the archetype of a future NBA player.
Yet Pickett, the savvy senior guard the Nuggets drafted out of Penn State at No. 32, has become a fan.
“I like it now,” he said laughing over the phone. “I was lukewarm at first, but I got used to it.”
Pickett described his game as “slow and methodical,” but doubt him at your own risk. As a senior at Penn State, he averaged 17.