"It was an exciting day, probably the most nervous I've ever been in my life," he said. "But it was fun. I had my whole family there, sitting there. But I really didn't know where I was going to go. I thought I was going to go higher. But it ended getting to the eighth pick. I knew I wasn't going to Detroit [which selected Arizona forward Stanley Johnson]. Then the ninth pick was Charlotte and they passed on me [in favor of Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky].