Marvin Bagley: 'I Still Think I Could Be the No. 1 Pick'

Twenty stories above Manhattan’s bustling Lower East Side, Marvin Bagley III sunk his 6’11” frame into a cushioned couch. The Duke product practically blends into the New York skyline while perched on the penthouse rooftop of the Hotel on Rivington, less than 40 hours before the 2018 NBA draft. “I still think I can be the No. 1 pick,” Bagley tells The Crossover. The Phoenix Suns did offer his first of three workouts during the pre-draft process, running Bagley threw a slew of conditioning and ball handling drills.

Bagley’s counterpart, dynamic Arizona center Deandre Ayton, appears all but a lock to the Suns. Yet Bagley, a Phoenix native, is a competitor by nature—you don’t average 13.1…