By the morning of the NBA Draft, Suns General Manager Ryan McDonough had altered his train of thought.
Throughout previous weeks, he and his staff had struggled in pinpointing which power forward prospect — Dragan Bender or Marquese Chriss — was the better option with the fourth overall pick. On that fateful Thursday morning, he thought he could see a way to get them both.
On the Vertical Podcast with Yahoo! Sports reporter Adrian Wojnorowski, McDonough explained the idea that snowballed into an avalanche of talent on draft night.