Ryan Lumpkin looks back on the night of last year’s NBA draft and laughs.
Lumpkin, having just finished his junior year at Maryland, was attending the draft party that Maryland forward Jake Layman’s parents threw for their son, his friends and family members at their home outside Boston.
“A lot of his friends who didn’t know me thought I was his agent,” Lumpkin recalled recently. “Every time I was on my phone, they would start looking up. It was just a fun night, something I’ll never forget.”
They didn’t know that Lumpkin had spent his first three years at Maryland as one of the basketball team’s managers, and that he and Layman roomed with two other players last year.