Jaime Jaquez happy Lakers passed on him: 'I wanted to get away'
The irony for Jaquez is that on draft night, the hometown Los Angeles Lakers had the No. 17 pick, one pick before Jaquez went to the Heat. The Lakers instead opted for Indiana freshman forward Jalen Hood-Schifino. That, Jaquez said, was for the best. “I wanted to get away,” he said. “I think, for myself, I thought it was important for me to be able to go out of my comfort zone and experience something new. I didn’t want to be a guy that said, ‘Oh, I just stayed in Southern California all my life.’ “I wanted to go live in a different... Читать дальше...