With the 2018 NBA draft just a little over two weeks away, the Los Angeles Lakers hosted six more players for a pre-draft workout Tuesday at the UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo. While there were a few impressive players in the gym on Tuesday, the most intriguing prospect of the group was Anfernee Simons because of his unorthodox path to the NBA.
Simons, a five-star prospect out of Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida, opted not to go to college despite getting offers from a dozen NCAA Division I basketball programs. Instead, he stayed in Florida and enrolled in IMG Academy, a private boarding school for students hoping to pursue a professional career in sports.