In the months before the NBA Draft, Cliff Alexander set out to change minds, one scout and general manager at a time. He really had no choice. He needed to start over.
Alexander, the former Kansas forward, yearned to re-tool his image, to redeem his reputation, to reshape the way the basketball world has come to view him. He is not exactly sure how this all happened, how people have come to see him in a negative light. He knows his freshman season did not go as planned. He knows he did not live up to expectations. He knows there were off-court problems that colored perceptions.