Draft Drama: Ace Bailey's Pre-Draft Moves Stir Speculation

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00:00We really thought, DRS, as the draft lottery played out in the middle of May,

00:04it was going to more than likely, look, flag one, Harper two, Bailey three.

00:10But Ace Bailey's had an interesting pre-draft process.

00:13He has not done well in interviews.

00:14He has canceled some workouts and pre-draft visits

00:18with teams selecting early on, including the 76ers at third overall.

00:24Here are the odds on Ace Bailey.

00:26And the confounding thing remains, DRS,

00:28he is a minus 200 favorite to be a top five pick

00:32and yet is not favored to go one, two, three, four, or five.

00:38The spot where he is favored with the shortest price is sixth overall at plus 130.

00:43It's where the Wizards are selecting right now.

00:47Ultimately, DRS, when is Ace Bailey going to hear his name called on this Wednesday in Brooklyn?

00:52I think he's still going to be a top five pick, but understand this.

00:54Here's what doesn't make sense about what Ace Bailey and his team are doing right now.

00:58Because you could say like, okay, I want to tank my draft stack.

01:00I want to get to a certain team.

01:01I understand that.

01:02Like, we don't want to go here.

01:03We don't want to go here.

01:04We want to be in Brooklyn.

01:05We want to be in Washington where maybe I can get a team where we're going to be bad,

01:09but I can really mature and I can shoot 15 times a game.

01:12Nobody's going to yell at me even 20 times a game and not be with a veteran presence.

01:15Who's going to say, hey, you're going to come off the bench.

01:17You're going to learn the hard way here.

01:18But understand this.

01:20What he told the Philadelphia 76ers, or at least his camp, it contradicts everything there.

01:23I don't want to go to Philadelphia, but now word comes down that he goes, all right, we'll

01:28work out for you, but guarantee me the number three pick that you're going to pick me.

01:31Well, wait a second.

01:32You don't want to be in Philadelphia, but if I work out, guarantee me that you'll pick

01:36me at three, even if I don't want to be there.

01:38But if you don't guarantee, I don't want to be in Philadelphia because it's not a good

01:42fit.

01:42But if you guarantee the number three pick and it's you, I'll go there.

01:45See what I mean?

01:45It doesn't make any sense even which way you try to explain at this point.

01:49So the fact that he's dropping is crazy, but also it's just like the whole thing is

01:52this kid probably if he again had good workouts and good interviews, we always know how the

01:58draft process works.

01:59The minute the ping pong balls come down, it's one, two, and three, and Harper is supposed

02:02to be the two.

02:03But we see in college football all the time.

02:04Hey, Stone Cold, surefire number one at the end of the football season.

02:07And he goes, hey, man, this guy's tearing it up.

02:09He has great chalk talk right now.

02:11He had a private workout that absolutely slayed.

02:13He might be moving up in the draft.

02:14We always get movers and shakers.

02:15We just never think it's going to be the mover and shaker going like, I'm a good player.

02:19Let me tank my stock to move down.

02:21Like what happens if Ace Bailey had great interviews, but again, a great workout.

02:23So it's like, hey, he's going number two overall to the, you know, San Antonio Spurs.

02:27And where does he benefit from that?

02:28In money.

02:30The higher you go, the more money you make over that rookie deal.

02:32And it's not like a, hey, it's $100,000 a year difference or 50 grand.

02:36It's millions.

02:37It could be tens of millions of dollars that he gives up by slotting lower here.

02:42And nobody knows how things work out.

02:43You could hurt your ankle bad.

02:45You could hurt your Achilles.

02:46You could have a knee issue here.

02:48You could not be the player that everybody thought you would be.

02:50But you know what?

02:51If you got drafted too, you got five years of a really good contract that you can turn

02:56in and retire off of.

02:57And I'm not saying that seven, eight or nine, you can't do that, but that's a lot of money

03:00to pass up and have that much gratitude to the NBA by going, I'll pick where I go and

03:04watch it turn out.

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