A group of NBA “personnel types” contacted by NBA.com’s David Aldridge recently listed Kansas redshirt sophomore guard Malik Newman as a player who improved his NBA Draft stock by averaging 23.8 points in five NCAA Tournament games.
Yet the eye-opening production down the stretch is not the reason the 21-year-old Newman has decided to turn pro with two years of college eligibility remaining, Newman's dad, Horatio Webster, said Wednesday.
“It wasn’t about the month of March. The month helped him,” Webster said in a phone conversation with The Star after his son announced plans to enter the 2018 NBA Draft.