MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — There are times it feels like you’ve seen everything when scouting amateur basketball players. It’s a feeling that quickly evaporates when you walk into a side court at an unassuming Lifetime Fitness in the Toronto suburbs to find 40-some NBA scouts crammed into folding chairs on the sidelines.
They were all there for Matur Maker, younger brother of Bucks forward Thon, who plans to follow the same path and bypass college basketball entirely for the 2018 NBA Draft. Currently in the midst of his post-graduate season in Canada, Maker recently turned 20 and will be a full year removed from high school graduation.