The two potential first picks of the 2023 NBA draft put on a show in their first matchup against each other.
HENDERSON, Nev. — We can only do so much to manufacture our own history: identify the actors who might shape things to come, place them in the arena, hope for the best results, subject them to the ensuing chaos. Perhaps no unseen force can wrench a plan faster than the nerves of teenagers. And so the chances of two basketball prodigies each putting on a transcendent display Tuesday night were probably not as favorable as the oddsmakers in this desert would have surely loved you to believe.