It wasn’t a Twitter notification or a phone call that broke the news to Tyrell Terry. Nor was it his agent who knew before the pick was made. The person that broke the news to Terry that he would be a Dallas Maverick with the 31st pick in the 2020 NBA Draft was the Deputy Commissioner of the NBA, Mark Tatum, on live television.
Because that’s what Terry wanted.
Terry believed he was a first-round pick, somewhere between 17-30 in the draft. Once the lottery wrapped up and picks started coming off the board in the second half of the first round, Terry told his agent that he didn’t want to find out beforehand where he was going.