Risers and fallers. Now two terms are more popular at the NBA Scouting Combine than risers and fallers. Players help their stock or hurt their stock or, in reality, just prove what we already suspected.
But it's always fun and interesting to focus on those players that perhaps went from a mid-round pick to the lottery. Or players who went from a lottery selection to a top-five player.
So which players helped themselves the most this year? Let's find out.
All combine results via NBA.com.
Zach LaVine, UCLA
We already knew Zach LaVine was athletic. Perhaps we just didn't quite know how athletic he was.
He had the best lane agility drill at 10.42 seconds. He had the second-best shuttle run at 2.8 seconds. He was fourth in the standing vertical at 33.5 inches. He was third in the maximum vertical leap at 41.5 inches.
Of course, you don't have to just trust the numbers, or take my word from it. The buzz around LaVine was high, according to Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated:
Another interesting aspect to LaVine is th ...
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