Nike Hoop Summit

So a year ago at USA Basketball in October, he measured 6'8" with shoes on.

At Hoop Summit he was 6'7" and a half.

Um, I don't think he's ever been bigger than 6'7" without shoes, but he's got a better than seven-foot wingspan, and that's been pretty-

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Number 19 now.

I have Abdu Touré from Arkansas here.

Uh, saw him at Hoop Summit.

Definitely guards, and definitely looks the part.

I was just practicing one day in, in LA.

I played Hoop Summit.

I don't know, I'm sure you know Hoop Summit.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, I, I broke a record there, and then I was like, Coach Cal was like, "I want him." And then I signed with Kentucky.

Definitely have high hopes for him.

A thing I always say about with him and Koa Pete is like, you know, these guys were highly touted for reasons like Kamau Malawach, Hoop Summit, was playing for his national team at 16, 17 years old, went to Duke and played well for a team that had a deep run.

Like these things just don't happen.

By the way, this is like five years and then playing the sport of basketball.

One of these players that when you see him in a gym, um, I got to see him before his Baylor year and, and I was just...

We got to see him at Nike Hoops Summit, and you immediately, you immediately buy in 'cause you're just like, "This kid looks like he's his fifth year of a weight conditioning program in the NBA, not a teenager." And, um, you know, he looks like the prototypical, like, dream shooting guard.

And, and it's like, okay, he's, he's tough, he's strong, he gets downhill, he's got some athleticism, he plays with fire, he's energetic, um, and he can score.

You're like, "All right, what, what's the catch here?" And, you know, Baylor was a rough watch last year, and Tunde was very inconsistent.

You saw him in a boot.

Uh, but I'm gonna go with Christian Collins here, um, who, you know, we got a chance to see at the Nike Hoop Summit.

And I loved his frame, his physicality, uh, his effort.

And then when you dive into the film, I think there's some real ball handling, play making, um, and two-way upside here at a position that I think teams covet, and just adding that kind of depth.

We've been grinding high school film, you know what I mean? So like, the stark difference from when we are looking at the high school film of like, one of the guys that we're going to talk about today and like Baba a lot of two who's headed to Maryland versus we're getting NBA ball soon, you know, we NBA media day took place, you attended NBA media day.

um for the los angeles clippers which we will get into a little bit later in the show but we're starting it off 2027 nba draft preview baba a lot of two headed to maryland um really interesting prospect uh at the nike hoop summit he measured at six ten and a half inches in shoes 202 pounds he's now listed at 205 on Maryland's website.

So, I don't know.

Seems reasonable.

Was the number one player in the class of 2027. reclassed to the class of 2026.

And he's kind of like a swing forward, you know, to me, you know, more of like a four than any other position, but he's probably going to ultimately his NBA future probably relies on him swinging from three to five, you know, somewhat fluidly, but I think he's probably kind of like a new age, kind of like four man.

But I think what's interesting about Baba, and this is a guy that we saw at the Nike hoop summit in person, in practice scrimmage games.

He is not only young, but he missed the vast majority of his senior year of high school with an injury coming back for the last two games of the season and helping to lead his team to, I think it's first state championship, uh, victory in a number of years.

Anyway, with Trey, a couple things.

I remember when he played, uh, at the Nike Hoop Summit a couple years ago.

It was, uh, the scrimmage game against the Portland Generals, and I just remember he hit a bunch of threes in that game, and I remember-- I don't remember if it was me and you or-- No, it was definitely me and you.

We were sitting together, I think, with, uh, uh, JK Mann from The Ringer.