During one of Lonnie Walker IV’s first workouts at Miami last summer, Jim Larrañaga took one look at the newly-arrived guard, turned to his assistant coaches and made a prediction.
“We’re not going to have him more than a year,” the Hurricanes coach recalled he told his staff. “He’s an NBA player.”
Roughly a year later, Walker is on the verge of proving Larrañaga right.
By late Thursday, when the NBA draft is over, the 6-foot-5 Walker, who led the Hurricanes in scoring as a freshman this past season, is likely to hear his name called in the first round.