Missouri added two athletes to the professional basketball brotherhood last night.
Kobe Brown was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the No. 30 overall pick in the NBA Draft, making him the last selection of the first round.
“It took one conversation with Kobe Brown for him to be able to say ‘you know what, I have a good feeling about you Coach Gates,’” Gates said. “When there’s that synergy and trust there with their career in my hands and vice versa, something really special can happen.”
Brown will have the opportunity to learn behind some elite veteran forwards in Kawhi Leonard and Paul George with the Clippers organization, but Gates believed that the Huntsville, Al.