CHICAGO — Jamila Wideman watched as a prospect at the NBA draft combine moved away from the ongoing drills to shoot free throws at an unoccupied basket.
The player was clearly tired. And Candice Dupree immediately stepped in to “rev him up.”
“All she’s doing is rebounding and passing back to him,” said Wideman, the NBA’s senior vice president of player development. “But you saw her see what he was going through, and just that tiny shift in her own energy. As a player, it’s such a gift for somebody to do that.”
