NBA Draft: 4 Forwards the Washington Wizards Should Consider on Draft Night

If Cam Reddish is somehow still on the board when it’s the Wizards time to pick, they’d be making a big mistake by letting the young forward drop further than the ninth pick.

Despite struggling to standout on a star-studded Duke roster, Reddish certainly has all the tools necessary to blossom into a great NBA player. At 6’8″ with a 7’1″ wingspan, Reddish looks like a modern NBA wing: long, fluid, and explosive. And he has great shooting form to match.

But the great form didn’t translate into great efficiency and Reddish struggled shooting the ball throughout his only season at Duke. Despite being touted as a decent to good shooter coming in, Reddish was only 33.3 percent from behind the arc and was an even less impressive 39.4 percent on 2-pointers. Maybe it was the spacing of the offense, or perhaps Reddish struggled to find a consistent rhythm sharing the ball with Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett, but something didn’t work.

The Wizards getting a chance to draft Reddish would mean enough teams were scared off by the red flags. And maybe the Wizards should be, too. But even though he hasn’t put it all together just yet, there’s something undeniably special about Reddish.

It’d be a surprise if the player widely considered the consensus number three prospect for entire college season drops down to number nine. But stranger things have happened.