NBA Draft 2019: Ja Morant has cemented himself as the No. 2 pick
By Tron Griffin
After a memorable performance in this year’s NCAA Tournament, Ja Morant has cemented himself as the No. 2 overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft
Every so often you meet or watch someone who are so good at what they are doing to the point it seems like they were born to do it. In Ja Morant, a projected top 3 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, seems like he was born to play basketball.
Morant, whose father played professional basketball overseas and was the high school teammate of future NBA Hall of Fame player Ray Allen; has the size, speed, vision and scoring ability to be one of the best point guards in the NBA.
He plays the game with the passion of a player on a mission to prove he is the best college basketball player in the nation, but is unselfish enough to find the open man or throw his teammates an alley oop.
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The talk of college basketball for much of this season has mainly been all about Duke University sensation Zion Williamson and what lucky NBA team will get to draft him, but Morant is so special that he could also be a one in a generation basketball player.
Morant, like Stephen Curry and Kyrie Irving, has benefited from being the son of a professional basketball player. He likely won’t need 2-3 years to develop into a solid player. He is ready to play in the league right now, which is what Hall of Famers Tracy McGrady, Scottie Pippen and many current and former NBA players have said this week.
For McGrady, he has seen enough to say he would draft Morant over R.J. Barrett with the No. 2 pick in the draft and I cannot blame him, because Morant has the game of a can’t miss future superstar.
The Morant hype was big before the tournament began. After his 17 points, 16 assists and 11 rebounds performance against Marquette we can pretty much assume (if Murray State can win another game or two) the hype is only beginning.
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We can expect Morant to show more of the top college basketball programs that they made a mistake in not signing him, and in turn continue to cement his place atop the 2019 NBA Draft board.