Currently situated with the number two overall selection in the 2016 NBA Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers are widely believed to favor taking whoever is left between top prospects Ben Simmons of LSU and Brandon Ingram of Duke. That won’t prevent them from doing their due diligence on all the top prospects, however, and one of the more promising is Cal forward Jaylen Brown.
Brown is one of the draft’s best athletes and has the tools to be a lockdown defender in the NBA. He has also already endeared himself to some Lakers fans by taking part in early-morning workouts because Kobe Bryant was known for them.