The month of June is now well underway, the “workouts” of the various Draft candidates are multiplying all over the country. On the side of Washingtonwhere the recruitment of a playmaker is possibly a priority issue for the offseason, it was this Monday around Cason Wallace (Kentucky) and Nick Smith Jr. (Arkansas), two of the best “combo guards” of the 2023 vintage, to perform a “workout” with the Wizards.
Holder of the 8th choice, the Washington club, now carried by a new management, could very well select one of the two players for the first choice of the new regime, even if a young person like Anthony Black, also a “freshman” with Arkansas, is surely also in consideration, while it is already projecting…
In any case, if the new leaders of the Wizards indeed opt for a playmaker / ball carrier with their 8th choice, the options and profiles will not be lacking. There is the defensive profile of Cason Wallace, the gifts of “playmaking” of Anthony Black or the qualities of “scoring” of Nick Smith Jr. Your choice.
Draft 2023: the profile of Cason Wallace, and Nick Smith Jr.
Finally, note two last things. The first is that Cason Wallace and Nick Smith Jr. confirmed, after the “workout”, that they have both already completed a “workout” with the Raptors, holders of the 13th choice and also potentially in search of a reinforcement on the 1/2 positions in this Draft. The second is that Cason Wallace won’t participate in the end in the “workout” which he was to take part with the Hawks (15th choice) on Tuesday.
Perhaps the consequence of a potential selection promise received in the “lottery”, from Washington or Toronto, even if smokescreens are frequent at this period of the pre-Draft process…
