After evaluating Oregon’s Bol Bol in his first games against high-major college competition, The Crossover’s Front Office examines one of college basketball’s most polarizing prospects, and the challenges the modern NBA presents him.
With apologies to Kristaps Porzingis, you’re not the only one sick of hearing basketball players labeled as “unicorns.” There is some value and truth to the usage of the term as a means of expressing the sentiment “I’ve never seen anyone with those specific physical traits play basketball in this particular way before.” By that definition, unicorns can take on all shapes and sizes, and Boban Marjanovic is as much a unicorn as Nate Robinson. That’s an acceptable…