. Jackson is suppose to have a work out with Bos, lets see if he cancels that.
link?
I saw it some where on here, and herd it on one of the sport show, don't ask which one, they tend to blur. It could even have been they are trying for one, but I swear that had one locked in at some point.
There's your answer:
High lottery pick Josh Jackson canceled today's workout with the Boston Celtics, source told me and @MarcJSpearsESPN.
https://twitter.com/goodmanespn/status/874464847303516161
What is this supposed to intimate? Why would he cancel a visit to the team with the number one pick other than A) Danny telling him he's straight up not going to pick him or B) Danny giving him a draft promise?
I'd much rather have A than B in this scenario (most likely meaning Fultz), but I don't see either of them as likely at all. And I wouldn't understand the logic of canceling with the top pick just because you have a promise from LA or Philly.
C. He has a promise from another team that he'd prefer to go to.
Ah, I guess I wasn't considering the "playing time" factor, too. Are people thinking it's LA or Philly? Between this and the leaks about Ball underwhelming in his LA visit, I find these "leaks" a bit too obvious to be factual and true, especially being right before the draft with how many lies are usually "leaked" like this.
In addition to actually being true, it very well could be either A) Magic downplaying Ball's workouts to try and persuade Boston not to take him (which I think is stupid since Fultz seems like a vastly superior prospect at this point), or B) the Colangelos trying to pump up Jackson to get LA to take him and have Ball fall to them.
I'm going to speculate and say it's the Lakers. Ball to the Lakers always felt a bit too perfect to me, and the situation was definitely reminiscent of Okafor two years ago.
I think he's certainly a better fit with their current squad than Ball. I like the fit of Jackson between Russell and Ingram, or vice versa if you see Ingram as the 2 and Jackson as the 3.
I'm not sure about the fit of Ball in Philly, though. I don't think Ball and Simmons are a good pairing, since I think they're actually pretty similar players at differing sizes and positions. And that only takes more touches away from Embiid, who should have the ball the majority of the time anyways.
Granted, I'm not sure that Philly would take Ball, either. They might have Fox higher on their list, especially with loud-mouth Lavar attached to Lonzo.