13 months, zero games: Inside Warriors rookie James Wiseman’s buildup to NBA debut [Mercury News]
Dec. 21 One afternoon in October, Steve Kerr stood in a gym in Miami with Warriors GM Bob Myers and owner Joe Lacob. It was the offseason, but Kerr was in mid-season form as he instructed James Wiseman to perform a battery of drills: Dribble the ball up the floor, hand it off, pitch ahead, go into a drag screen, pick, pop, shoot.
These are drills a guard might be asked to perform in a workout ahead of the NBA draft. But Wiseman’s not a guard. He’s a center a 7-foot, 245-pound big man.