Zach Edey dunks on Dan Dakich after switch portal report
Zach Edey has dependable sources about his basketball standing.
Dan Dakich, a number at OutKick who was beforehand a school basketball analyst at ESPN, tweeted Tuesday morning that “My persons are telling me Zach Edey is within the switch portal. The switch portal and NIL suck.”
Edey, the 20-year-old Purdue huge man who has been the heavy betting favourite to win the Naismith School Basketball Participant of the Yr, says that ain’t so.
“My sources are telling me that is false,” Edey responded.
Dakich performed below Bob Knight at Indiana within the Nineteen Eighties and had a 14-year run internet hosting sports activities speak radio in Indianapolis that concluded late final yr.
Nonetheless, he has thrown within the towel on his sourcing.
“Simply fired ‘my folks,’” he tweeted. “On the lookout for new ‘folks’ Apply right here.”
Edey’s basketball future is intriguing for a variety of causes.
In a previous day and age, he would’ve been pegged as an higher echelon NBA draft decide.
Nonetheless, the fashionable period locations much less of a premium on his abilities within the submit and as a rebounder, and rather more on the quickness and taking pictures vary that he lacks.
Due to this fact, he’s not presently touted as a lottery decide, and even to go within the first spherical, regardless of being the best player in college hoops this past season.
ESPN’s Jonathan Givony has Edey ranked because the 53rd greatest out there prospect within the 2023 NBA Draft and The Athletic’s latest mock draft has Edey going forty fifth general.
The 7-foot-4 Edey averaged 22.3 factors and 12.9 rebounds per recreation this season, taking pictures over 60 % from the sector as Purdue gained each the common season and convention event within the Massive Ten.
However, the Boilermakers have been stunned in the first round of the NCAA Match, shedding 63-58 to the 16-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson.
Final yr, Purdue misplaced to 15-seed Saint Peter’s within the Candy Sixteen, and in 2021 they have been upset by 13-seed North Texas in an extra time heartbreaker within the first spherical of March Insanity.
Edey has a yr of eligibility remaining and it isn’t simply competitors elements that he’d be weighing in deciding the place to play subsequent yr — he’s within the place to extremely capitalize on NIL alternatives.
Nonetheless, he says he has not entered the switch portal, and time will inform whether or not he opts to play subsequent season at Purdue, one other school program or within the NBA.