UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero sat in the bleachers of a Chicago gym just before day two of the NBA draft combine began. He was there, in part, to support the UCLA players in attendance — Ike Anigbogu, TJ Leaf and Thomas Welsh.
But the most talked-about player heading into this draft — also one of his — wasn’t there: point guard Lonzo Ball.
“Well, you know, we knew when we recruited Lonzo that there would be certainly a lot of publicity around him both as a player and as a potential professional athlete,” Guerrero said.