Dalton Knecht, minutes removed from his wildest dreams coming true, walked off the Barclays Center floor and into the back corner of a room where his life as a Los Angeles Laker would begin.
“I’m doing my first TikTok,” Knecht said with a laugh before looking into the cellphone camera to say the words he’d end up saying nearly a hundred times Thursday night.
“It’s Dalton Knecht,” he said.
After the 6-foot-6 wing from Tennessee walked across the stage at Barclays Center and shook NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s hand during the first round of the NBA draft, he was whisked away from station to station, doing interviews, posing for photos and filming social media content.