Everything went according to plan.
STILLWATER — Late in Cade Cunningham’s recruiting process, Mike Boynton gave the nation’s No. 1 high school player a book that Boynton described as a two-year calendar.
On Thursday, Cunningham announced his decision to enter the NBA Draft, which was another part of that itinerary Boynton laid out. The roadmap Boynton set up started with things like Cunningham becoming a McDonald’s All-American, which he did, to coming to college and having an impact individually and as a team, which he did.
“I tried to be as thorough with that plan as possible because he wasn’t going to pick Oklahoma State because we were just a better program at the time than everybody else that was recruiting him,” Boynton said.