In a uniformly excellent piece on The Ringer, Danny Chau tells one of my favorite/least favorite Andre Drummond anecdotes. When going through the gauntlet of NBA draft vetting, it seemed the young UConn big man said we wanted to model his game after Kevin Durant.
Many laughed at the time, and the amusing morsel was used to explain away how such a preternaturally gifted big man, with the ability to catch any carom in the gym, fell all the way to ninth in the 2012 NBA Draft.
The anecdote seemed to get less and less amusing over the years, as it seemed Drummond just wasn’t ever going to GET IT.