"Wonder Boy" is heading to the NBA

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Luka Doncic Is No Darko Milicic

"Wonder Boy" is heading to the NBA, and he's out to change how we think about European imports.
by Mina Kimes
04/09/18

On June 21, Adam Silver will likely announce that Doncic has been selected near the top of the draft. If, as expected, Wonder Boy lands in the top three, he'll become the first European player to do so since Andrea Bargnani was picked first in 2006. (Porzingis, who was famously booed at his draft, went fourth in 2015.) When this happens, some fans will inevitably protest; they'll bring up Bargnani and Darko Milicic and Nikoloz Tskitishvili, those cautionary tales that haunt European prospects like family secrets. They'll call Doncic soft, comparing him to players who superficially resemble him, and they'll bemoan the decision to choose him over a blue-chip NCAA prospect -- even if, as Porzingis contends, "there's no other college kid that's able to put up those numbers in a EuroLeague game." At the moment, Porzingis explains, there's more hype around the Americans.
But that'll change soon enough, he says.