CAMDEN, N.J. - Lonnie Walker doesn't quite remember his idol's greatest moment. He was only 2 years old at the time. But he knows what jersey Allen Iverson was wearing when he took the Philadelphia 76ers on an unexpected trip to the 2001 NBA Finals.

And Walker was wearing that team name on his chest on Monday afternoon during a pre-Draft workout for his favorite team.

"It's like a dream," said the Reading native with an almost sheepish grin after working out in front of 76ers coach Brett Brown and other team officials.

"Always have been a Sixers fan," said Walker. "Julius Erving was my first favorite player ever. And then Allen Iverson was my end-all-be-all, top player, greatest player in the world.

"I was always surrounded by it and my favorite player was always from the 76ers day-in and day-out."

And he doesn't mind saying he'd love to be a Sixer:

"They're a pass-first, very unselfish team. Their speed and agility up and down the court and their style of play fits my style of play. It's kind of too good to be true."

Walker is projected all over the board when the 2018 NBA Draft happens in Brooklyn on June 21. He's probably headed someplace in-between the Sixers' first of six prospective selections (#10) and their second (#26). But it's not inconceivable he could end up with that favorite jersey - the real thing - wrapped around his chest.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been working out with five other prospects at the Sixers' practice facility in Camden.

Walker led his Reading High School team to a 2017 PIAA championship before heading to the University of Miami for a year. With the Hurricanes under Jim Larranaga, Walker had a prodigious freshman season, one that saw highs (25 points against Louisville and 23 against Florida State in back-to-back ACC games) and lows (a critical turnover and missed free throw in the final minute of a 64-62 NCAA tournament loss to eventual Final Four entry Loyola-Chicago) typical of a rookie.

Now he must be a rookie again. But he doesn't sound like one.

The 19-year-old Walker sounded poised and articulate throughout a 10-minute session with reporters. This after ripping through a 45-minute workout in which Sixers staff set him and five other prospects through drills constructed to gauge close-out speed, catch-and-shoot ability, one-on-one skills and defensive strength and mobility.

Media were allowed to view the final 15 minutes of the workouts. Walker worked with and against fellow guards and wingers 6-5 Shake Milton of Southern Methodist, 6-6 Miles Bridges of Michigan State and 6-6 Jared Nickens of Maryland. Also at the camp: Oregon State forward Drew Eubanks and Baylor forward Nuni Omot.

If anything at all could be gleaned functionally from the viewed workouts - which is debatable - it was Bridges and Walker going at one another. They were the only ones at this camp projected as first-round picks. Some mock-Drafts have Bridges going to the Sixers with the #10 pick.

If anything, Walker looked a little better than his MSU counterpart. He was lithe, looked quicker and able to get to spots on defense with a little more fluidity. But, as has been the knock on him, his 3-point shot was streaky (.346 3P% in his season at Miami).

What, if anything, this all means in such an artificial setting is dubious. This isn't basketball any more than the Combine is. The coaches have real tape from which to judge players more acutely.

But what might be worth something in these up-close meetings is the personal interaction. Brown, who suddenly has taken on an interim-general manager responsibility with the dismissal of Bryan Colangelo, said he enjoys having contact with prospects in various ways:

"It's a side of this job and a side of selecting and growing-up players that interests me as much as anything. And it is a real layer for me on determining the whole package, the whole opinion on somebody."

The Sixers are expected to work out Villanova's Mikal Bridges among others on Tuesday.

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