In an interview with Marc J. Spears of ESPN’s Andscape, the father of Houston Rockets rookie Jabari Smith Jr. said his son had a 2022 NBA draft promise from Oklahoma City that went unfulfilled.
“They called Chet Holmgren’s name, and he lost it,” Jabari Smith Sr., a former NBA player himself, told Andscape. “Leg went to shaking. I looked at him. He is almost in tears. And I forgot that he told me that OKC (promised to draft him), so I got to keep my mouth closed about that. I talked to him, ‘Well, hey, what are you doing? Straighten your face, man. You good, you good, you good.’”
