Montrezl Harrell, the Houston Rockets' second-round pick taken 32nd in this year’s draft, might not be the league’s next superstar. He might not even see much time with the mothership this year. But he landed in the right organization to become a longtime NBA player.
He has the physical tools.
Only 6’7” without shoes, according to NBA.com, he has a condor-like 7’4.25” wingspan. That 9.25-inch difference is greater than any differential to be found in the history of the official NBA draft combine at DraftExpress.
He’s a high-motor player who likes to do things like this:
Following his first summer league game, in which he scored 11 points and grabbed eight rebounds en route to leading the Rockets to a 108-89 victory of the Phoenix Suns, Harrell addressed the initial disappointment of dropping to the second round in a postgame interview with NBA TV (h/t Kyle Williams, The Courier Journal):
That's out the window now.