Joe Cowley: Keep an eye on the Bulls looking to get into the late first round for backcourt help, eyeing Miles McBride or “Bones” Hyland from VCU, per a source. Knicks also like Hyland at pick 19 or 21. Let the games begin ….
Miles McBride Rumors
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Jonathan Wasserman: Two guards I’m hearing for Knicks if they can’t trade up: Deuce McBride and Bones Hyland. Both in a small group of targets for NY, likely at 21.
According to one league source, Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau was pushing for West Virginia sophomore point guard Miles McBride, who has been projected in some mocks as an early second-round or late first-round pick. It’s unclear at which slot Thibodeau would prefer to select McBride — No. 19 or 21 in the first round, or No. 32 early in the second round — but the 20-year-old impressed him in his Knicks workout.
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The workout is important because the Jazz have wanted to get a close look at Grimes. Other candidates at No. 30 for the Jazz, according to sources, include Bones Hyland of VCU, Ayo Dosunmu from Illinois, Miles McBride out of West Virginia, Herb Jones from Alabama, Joel Ayayi from Gonzaga, Josh Primo from Alabama and Jared Butler from Baylor.
Harrison Wind: Nuggets are holding another pre-draft workout Monday: – Miles McBride (West Virginia) – Josh Primo (Alabama) – Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (Villanova) – Zaccheus Darko-Kelly (Providence) – Alan Griffin (Syracuse) – Damien Jefferson (Creighton)
