The new and Bill Simmons-less Grantland is previewing this weeks NBA draft and wouldn’t you know it, they’re talking about some Kentucky Wildcats. Karl Towns and Willie Cauley-Stein were two of the topics of conversation and here’s a bit of what they had to say:
Why is Karl-Anthony Towns going no. 1?
For one thing, Towns might be the one player in this draft without a real weakness. He can run the floor on offense and protect the rim on defense. He can play power forward or center. He can score down low, but he also has a jumper that’ll allow him to work farther away from the rim.