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Grant-Foster credits GCU at NBA Draft Combine
5/17/2024 11:34:00 AM | Men's Basketball, Paul Coro
Lopes standout's wingspan measured at nearly 7 feet this week in Chicago
Tyon Grant-Foster does not know how his professional prospects will play out, but he was not sure about how his collegiate career would play out either before finishing it as WAC Player of the Year on a Grand Canyon team that reached the NCAA tournament's second round this year.
Grant-Foster is at the NBA Draft Combine this week as one of 78 players that the league invited to Chicago. Part of his attendance included media sessions, which were captured by Hoops Hype journalist Cyro Asseo and the Charlotte Hornets media team.
When he was asked about whether he could have envisioned this season's success, the Lopes swingman reflected on the summer of hard work he put in at GCU Basketball Practice Facility to prepare for a season he could not even have imagined.
"Everybody doesn't get the happy ending like I did," Grant-Foster told reporters in Chicago, where the combine was held in the arena of his prior college stop, DePaul. "So it wasn't expected, but I'm really grateful for it."
The NBA Draft Combine uniformly measures all prospects. Grant-Foster had the following:
Asked what he wanted pro teams to know about his game, Grant-Foster said, "I can really play defense. That's one thing that I tried to showcase. I feel like one thing that didn't get really seen as much is my passing ability."
"His offensive game speaks for itself," an NBA scout said of Grant-Foster to NBA Big Board, which ranks him No. 26 in the draft pool. "He's unstoppable in transition, shoots it and has legit NBA positional size and skill.
"He's a top-five two-way guard in this draft. I didn't know he was this good defensively until I went to the last four games. This is really just his first real year playing; he hasn't even scratched the surface."
Most draft pundits consider Grant-Foster a second-round prospect, but Draft Digest analyst Global Scouting has him at No. 33 and NBA Draft Room considers him the No. 17 small forward prospect.
The NBA Draft first round will be June 26 with the second round following on June 27, within 15 months of when Grant-Foster signed with GCU and subsequently moved to Phoenix for summer workouts. He went two years without playing a college basketball game and wound up being one of 20 Lute Olson National Player of the Year finalists.
"It was everything that I wanted," Grant-Foster said of GCU to media at the NBA Draft Combine. "They really accepted me. I just feel like that's one of the big reasons I was able to play like I could play and do the things that I go to do there."
Grant-Foster is at the NBA Draft Combine this week as one of 78 players that the league invited to Chicago. Part of his attendance included media sessions, which were captured by Hoops Hype journalist Cyro Asseo and the Charlotte Hornets media team.When he was asked about whether he could have envisioned this season's success, the Lopes swingman reflected on the summer of hard work he put in at GCU Basketball Practice Facility to prepare for a season he could not even have imagined.
"Everybody doesn't get the happy ending like I did," Grant-Foster told reporters in Chicago, where the combine was held in the arena of his prior college stop, DePaul. "So it wasn't expected, but I'm really grateful for it."
The NBA Draft Combine uniformly measures all prospects. Grant-Foster had the following:
- Height: 6 feet, 5 3/4 inches without shoes
- Weight: 215.2 pounds
- Wingspan: 6 feet, 11 3/4 inches
- Standing reach: 8 feet, 8 inches
- Hand width: 9 1/4 inches
- Hand length: 8 3/4 inches
Asked what he wanted pro teams to know about his game, Grant-Foster said, "I can really play defense. That's one thing that I tried to showcase. I feel like one thing that didn't get really seen as much is my passing ability."
"His offensive game speaks for itself," an NBA scout said of Grant-Foster to NBA Big Board, which ranks him No. 26 in the draft pool. "He's unstoppable in transition, shoots it and has legit NBA positional size and skill.
"He's a top-five two-way guard in this draft. I didn't know he was this good defensively until I went to the last four games. This is really just his first real year playing; he hasn't even scratched the surface."
Most draft pundits consider Grant-Foster a second-round prospect, but Draft Digest analyst Global Scouting has him at No. 33 and NBA Draft Room considers him the No. 17 small forward prospect.
The NBA Draft first round will be June 26 with the second round following on June 27, within 15 months of when Grant-Foster signed with GCU and subsequently moved to Phoenix for summer workouts. He went two years without playing a college basketball game and wound up being one of 20 Lute Olson National Player of the Year finalists.
"It was everything that I wanted," Grant-Foster said of GCU to media at the NBA Draft Combine. "They really accepted me. I just feel like that's one of the big reasons I was able to play like I could play and do the things that I go to do there."
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