NEW YORK _ The NBA draft is still weeks away and other than an interview lasting less than an hour in a Chicago hotel suite, there have been no workouts or measurements of the three players that almost every scout has penciled in as the top three picks this summer.
Duke's Zion Williamson is a fait accompli as the top pick to New Orleans and almost everyone figures Ja Morant, the athletic point guard from Murray State, to go No. 2 to Memphis, which would leave Williamson's Duke teammate, RJ Barrett, for the Knicks at the third spot.
It took less than a day for speculation to begin that the Grizzlies had locked in on Morant _ even though they had not done anything other than sit in a room with him in the hotel. Not a drill. Not a test. Not a measurement.
