It’s obviously premature to dub the Nets’ historic quintet the brand new Fab Five, however the NBA’s first set of 5 first-round picks in a single draft by the identical franchise already has been bonding ahead of the beginning of summer league later this week in Las Vegas.
Lottery pick Egor Demin and recent teammates Nolan Traore, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf sounded desirous to start on constructing their very own identity while helping out at a camp for teenagers Monday at Sunset Park in Brooklyn.
“We’re gonna should prove ourselves,” said Wolf, who was pick No. 27 out of Michigan, where the unique collegiate Fab Five freshmen got began greater than three a long time ago. “The Fab Five arguably is among the best college teams of all time, so if we will consider ourselves the Fab Five of the NBA in some unspecified time in the future in time, that may be pretty cool.
“But I’ll leave it as much as you guys [in the media] to present us a nickname.”
It’s obviously premature to dub the Nets’ historic quintet the brand new Fab Five, however the NBA’s first set of 5 first-round picks in a single draft by the identical franchise already has been bonding ahead of the beginning of summer league later this week in Las Vegas.
Lottery pick Egor Demin and recent teammates Nolan Traore, Drake Powell, Ben Saraf and Danny Wolf sounded desirous to start on constructing their very own identity while helping out at a camp for teenagers Monday at Sunset Park in Brooklyn.
“We’re gonna should prove ourselves,” said Wolf, who was pick No. 27 out of Michigan, where the unique collegiate Fab Five freshmen got began greater than three a long time ago. “The Fab Five arguably is among the best college teams of all time, so if we will consider ourselves the Fab Five of the NBA in some unspecified time in the future in time, that may be pretty cool.
“But I’ll leave it as much as you guys [in the media] to present us a nickname.”
