Ricky Council IV (Arkansas), Nikola Djurisic (Serbia), Tevian Jones (Southern Utah), Darius McGhee (Liberty), Jordan Miller (Miami) and Keisei Tominaga (Nebraska) will work out for the Pacers on Tuesday, Scott Agness of Fieldhouse Files tweets. Council, ranked No. 56 on ESPN’s Best Available list, and Djurisic (No. 59) are the highest-rated players visiting Indianapolis.
We have more draft-related news:
- Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe (No. 75) headlines the group of six prospects that the Hawks will evaluate on Tuesday, Lauren Williams of the Atlanta Journal Constitution tweets. Overtime Elite’s Jazian Gortman, North Carolina’s Leaky Black, UAB’s Trey Jemison, TCU’s Emanuel Miller and Texas’ Sir’Jabari Rice will join him.
- Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner is withdrawing from the draft and returning to school, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein tweets. Kalkbrenner was considered a second-round prospect, ranking No. 62 on ESPN’s list.
- Grand Canyon’s Rayshon Harrison is also returning to school, Rothstein adds in another tweet.
- Eastern Michigan’s Emoni Bates interviewed well at the combine, which boosted his stock and made a lot of teams take a closer look at him, according to Sarah Todd of the Deseret News. Bates is considered a second-round prospect (No. 57).
Emoni Bates needs to land on the right team to have any chance of reaching his positional again.
Not only that but he will need to swallow his pride and be willing to do minutes in the g league, time on the bench and hours in practice trying to get better.
If he’s willing to do all that and ends up in the right spot then watch out, we are talking about a potential all star. The likeliness of all that happening tho isn’t very high, I just hope he can carve out a good career.
Late first or early second round to the Pacers would be a good spot, Memphis would be really interesting otherwise I like Cleveland or Pheonix both near the end of the second round
Bates is an entitled talent. Who unfortunately had no help developing his game. He’s too thin and plays no D. He’d need two yrs in G-league minimum. Plus a team that is willing to put in the time to help him. Don’t know if he has the character to do it. Still young so we’ll see.