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An interview with 8th-rounder Billy Cooke

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Covering the draft can be a grind. After a while, all the players start to bleed together, becoming just a series of stat sheets and grainy prospect videos. But once in a while, you get lucky and a player jumps out at you. For me, that player was Billy Cooke, when I found this:

And then this:

(The disappointed announcer voice in that second one is just perfection.)

Oh but then he can also do this:

Cooke lost basically his entire freshman season to a broken bone in his hand, but rebounded as a sophomore to hit .