By the time he watched all the tutorials he could find, finished his two-year research and ordered all the necessary parts. Assembling his own laptop was the easy part for Jarrett Allen.
“To build it took, probably, 30 to 45 minutes,” Allen, a 6-foot-11 forward out of Texas who could be selected in the lottery of this month’s NBA draft, said of the computer he created as a sophomore in high school and used through his freshman year of college. “I tried to make it as quiet as it could be, but with all the fans it was kind of hard.