Comparisons are as inevitable as mock drafts during this season of pre-draft workouts, so here's one for Bam Adebayo, who was one of six players to work out for the Pacers on Monday: Mel Daniels.
Adebayo, a one-and-done prospect out of the University of Kentucky, is just short of 6-foot-9 in his bare feet. Same as Daniels.
Adebayo got a late start in basketball, and has grown from a raw physical specimen into a blooming talent with plenty of potential for further improvement. The same would have been said about Daniels when he was 19.
Adebayo grew up humbly in a single-wide trailer in a small town in North Carolina, Pinetown.