Undecided if his professional future is now until he participated in May's Chicago draft combine, new Timberwolves guard Josh Okogie says the transformation from collegiate to NBA player all came home when he entered an elevator the other day and someone sized him up by asking if he plays basketball.
"Then they were like, 'What team do you play for?' " he said Tuesday. "I almost said, 'Georgia Tech' because I played there the last two years. It felt good to say 'Minnesota Timberwolves.' "
And funny, but in January somebody else asked him what NBA player he compares himself with and he answered the Wolves' Jimmy Butler.