Alex Wong, writing again for Vice Sports, profiles Anthony Bennett, touching on how he’s been the poster boy for draft busts everywhere since being taken overall No. 1 four seasons ago. But Wong also touches on something he believes is of equal importance as he begins his fourth season, Bennett’s rising confidence.
And, he suggests, one can lead to the erasure of the other.
Bennett, he writes, understandably lost confidence ... and lost his sense of joy, of fun. And he knew it. When he was waived by his hometown Raptors last spring, he got on a plane and flew to Las Vegas to work out with Impact Basketball, spening six weeks with trainer Drew Hanlen, going through three-hour daily workouts.