Jahlil Okafor

Yeah.

Also, Jahlil Okafor was on that team.

That is, that is wild.

God, they've had some weird roster constructions in New Orleans, a, a, uh, something they're continuing this year.

I'm like, uh.

I'll go Jahlil Okafor.

That's a good one.

I'll go Jahlil Okafor.

I don't even know if he won it, though.

I think he did.

Then I guess Kristaps Porziņģis would've been my third choice after that.

And then from there, like, this, this is a pretty shitty draft, honestly, 'cause you got Jalil Okafor went third.

Mario Hezonja went fifth.

Willie Cauley-Stein went sixth.

This is not a great draft.

[laughs] Um, and, and so I guess, like, to that extent, D'Lo had a better career than...

He had a better career than Jalil Okafor.

Had a better career than Mario Hezonja.

But the other reason teams play drop is when you have an immobile big man.

Like, Jahlil Okafor played drop because that's the only thing he could do.

[laughs]

Now, the question is whether or not they're playing Embiid in a drop because that's a way to keep the, the rim protect near the rim, or whether it's because he's become immobile to the point where he can't really step out on the perimeter like he used to be.

Oh, Okafor.

Jahlil Okafor.

Oh.

17 and a half points per game.

Yeah, yeah.

He was like a humongous recruit, literally a humongous guy.

Justin Kimball in the offices of NBA TV couldn't stop supporting Jahlil Okafor.

[laughs]

He also then, when Kevin Love essentially demanded a trade, he traded him to Cleveland and got Andrew Wiggins who was just s- had just been selected number one overall.

And the team, like he, he also picked Karl-Anthony Towns over Jahlil Okafor which seems unbelievably obvious right now, one of the biggest like this guy over that guy things that could've gone another way.

Um, but at the time it was a debate, like it was a real debate and there was a lot of concern that Saunders was gonna pick the traditional back to the basket big man in Okafor which would've been an unmitigated disaster.

He picked Towns and then he signed Andre Miller, Tayshaun Prince, veterans.

Think back to, like, Talen Horton-Tucker.

If he hit, if his skill level was NBA level, there were still question marks about w- how does he fit? Skill level-wise, he might get there, but then it's a question of does he actually fit? I, I think back to Jahlil Okafor.

He's a talented player Didn't fit in the NBA.

Did he wind up having a long career? No.

Okay.

He was on- That was, that was the Jahlil Okafor teams? Uh, no, before that, like end of- It was before that? ...

end of Elton Brand career.

Oh, okay, okay.