Earlier this season, I was sitting next to a couple of scouts at a game, one of whom was raving about Los Angeles Lakers two-way contract player Johnathan Williams, who happened to be showing all the skills that make him so intriguing for a young fringe player.
One scout was talking about how he had tried to get his organization to draft Williams, and the other one simply deadpanned about how they could get him in the summer because the Lakers would probably let him go anyway, making a crack about how they don’t value young, talented big men by using Ivica Zubac as an example.