Chad Ford: I’ve got LaMelo Ball one, James Wiseman, Anthony Edwards three, Tyrese Haliburton four, Killian Hayes five and again, this is not predicting where they will go with a particular team. This isn’t a mock draft. This is just overall talent. This was an aggregate of talking to NBA teams and scouts about where they had particular players ranked. And I will just add, there was a lot of variability here as well and so guys are all over the place on NBA boards. There’s not what I would call like a major consensus like there was last year was Zion Williamson and Ja Morant.
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During the team’s trip to the Orlando bubble in July, Jaren Jackson Jr. tore the meniscus in his left knee. He returned from the trip early to begin his rehab. His teammate, Justise Winslow, who was also injured in the bubble, is rehabbing his injury with him. “I had a quicker start to my offseason getting healthy again and getting workouts and all that,” Jackson said. “I’ve been basically seeing Justise every day of my life, literally. We’ve been in there grinding. We made it a goal to never have a bad day and we’ve never had a bad day pretty much ever.”
Jackson wants to let their offseason workouts do the talking. The recovering Grizz players post videos of their rehab workouts every few days. “Just wait, we don’t even like to talk about it,” the 21-year-old said. “We want to let our action speak, but we are waiting to see when we can let our actions speak and get back out there.”
Since he was drafted in 2018, Jackson has been the Grizzlies’ biggest advocate for encouraging voter turnout. On draft night he wore a “Rock the Vote” jacket, and just a week ago he was honored National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) Medallion Award for his dedication to the cause. “This is something I’ve been taught by my parents,” said Jackson, who volunteered at a polling location when he was younger. “This is something that, especially people who look like me, died for, and everybody in America has died for as well. You might as well express yourself and have your voice be heard.”
