The 7-foot-1 Authentic Marcell Ozuna Jersey , 250-pound center went through what he said would be his only pre-draft workout and expressed supreme confidence that the
Suns will use the No. 1 overall pick to select him.”I know I’m going No. 1,” he told reporters.Not that the Suns have assured him of that, he’s just that confident that the team won’t pass on his combination of size, strength, athleticism and shooting
touch.”Nobody told me,” he said. ”That’s just me. I think I deserve that. I’ve worked hard.”It would be a comfortable fit for Ayton, who was born in the Bahamas and moved to the Phoenix area during high school. He said most of his family now
lives here. Ayton played his one year of college basketball a couple of hours
down Interstate 10 at the University of Arizona.”Everybody knows us now,” he said. ”This is our second home so we just feel welcome, and it would be a blessing if I become the No. 1 pick and stay here and
make this home.”Ayton said teaming with young Suns star Devin Booker would be ”Shaq and Kobe 2-point-0.””We could really make something happen in Phoenix,” he said. ”We could really have a spark and start a winning legacy.”There hasn’t been much winning in Phoenix lately. The Suns have missed the playoffs eight years in a row and had the NBA’s worst record last season at
21-61, second-worst in franchise history.But there is a young core of talent and most of those players, including Booker and Josh Jackson, watched what Ayton described as ”a pretty intense”
individual workout.For nearly an hour Michael Crabtree Jersey , Suns coach Igor Kokoskov and his staff put Ayton through a series of game situations, as much as possible given the fact no other
players were on the floor.”It was everything that we expected form Deandre,” general manager Ryan McDonough said. ”Obviously we’ve watched him closely at Arizona and we’ve
scouted him heavily in person in games, at practice and on film. He showed us
what we expected to see.”McDonough said ”it’s pretty rare” to find such a player.”I think this is my 16th draft in the NBA,” McDonough said, ”and you can probably count on one hand the number of guys with his size, athleticism,
footwork, balance, touch. It’s a unique package.”He was particularly impressed with Ayton’s outside shooting touch.”We knew he was big and strong and athletic and moved well at that size, had good length, had great hands,” McDonough said Authentic Josh Sitton Jersey , ”but to see him make shot after shot in a workout in different scenarios.”And he’s just 19 years old.The Suns plan other workouts with candidates for the No. 1 pick later this week. The group won’t include Luka Doncic, who is still playing in Europe.Phoenix is not tipping its hand, but Ayton will be hard to pass up.”The strength of our team right now are young perimeter players, led by Devin Booker, Josh Jackson and T.J. Warren,” McDonough said. ”We’ve been looking for a
center to kind of anchor our team offensively and defensively. We think Deandre
has that kind of potential. … He’s certainly a unique player and a unique talent
that I think would fit in great with the rest of our roster.”Ayton averaged 20.1 points and 11.6 rebounds in his one season at Arizona. He brushed aside questions about his defense.”I don’t think that’s a weakness,” he said. ”I haven’t had the opportunity to really guard any bigs in college. I was always on the perimeter with the
guards.”Still, he pointed out, he averaged 2.3 blocked shots per game.On offense, Ayton said, ”I can score inside and out.””There will be a lot of mismatches because if I guard them they have to guard me at the end of the day,” he said. ”I can score, I can pick and pop http://www.raidersauthorizedshops.com/authentic-arden-key-jersey , I can pick and roll, I can put the ball on the ground, rebound, push the ball.
It’s an open floor now. Nobody is really double-teaming or triple-teaming.”He said there is no current player on which he patterns his game. But he mentioned two pretty good ones from the past.”Kevin Garnett, his intensity on both ends of the floor, how he changes the game, rebounding. From offense to defense, him starting the pick and roll, stuff
like that,” Ayton said, ”how he’s so vocal with his teammates. And Hakeem
Olajuwon, with his footwork down low, I try to really pick up a lot of stuff
with those guys.”Ayton called himself the most competitive player in the draft. He said there’s none of the laid-back attitude that’s a trademark of his homeland.”I left at age 12 Darius Leonard Jersey , so I got a little Americanized with the competitive level,” he said.Ayton planned to get together with Booker and other Suns players to watch Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night.—The San Francisco 49ers have exercised the fifth-year option to keep defensive end Arik Armstead under contract through 2019.The team announced the move Monday to pick up the option worth about $9 million. The deal is guaranteed for injury and will become fully guaranteed next
March.Armstead was taken 17th overall in 2015. He has six sacks and 56 tackles in 30 career games. Armstead played just six games last year before a season-ending
broken hand.San Francisco also waived linebackers Jimmie Gilbert, Boseko Lokombo and Donavin Newsom; and defensive backs Dexter McCoil and Channing Stribling.The Niners signed seven undrafted free agents: WR Steven Dunbar, TE Ross Dwelley, QB Jack Heneghan, OL Alan Knott, OL Jamar McGloster, DL Niles Scott,
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