Marvin Bagley III was not the first player called at the NBA draft on June 21, but he went into the night feeling like he should have been.
"It's kind of hard for me to say that I'm not the best player in the draft," the forward out of Duke said in Sacramento on June 11. "I mean that in the most humble way possible, but it's the type of competitive spirit that I have."
The No. 1 pick was Deandre Ayton, an Arizona center drafted by the Phoenix Suns, one pick before the Kings selected Bagley.