Phoenix Suns backup point guard Cameron Payne has had the fortune of playing with two sure-fire first ballot of Hall of Famers in Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook.
He was drafted 14th overall in 2015, right behind Devin Booker and ahead of Kelly Oubre Jr., to play behind the mercurial Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Payne remembers draft night fondly. “The first thing that went through my mind was like, I looked at my dad and said ‘oh man I gotta guard Russell Westbrook every day in practice’.”
“He will make you better,” was all his dad could come up with as advice.