Other NBA players have a lot of nice words to say about the Chicago Bulls No. 7 overall 2019 draft pick Coby White, including Chris Paul.

A promising piece of the Chicago Bulls roster didn’t show his full potential in the Las Vegas NBA Summer League with rookie point guard Coby White. But another former NBA star opened up on him here lately, and how his skill set could translate from college.

White didn’t have the best showing in Summer League, but there were plenty of moments since the Bulls called his name at the seventh overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft that are very memorable. Draft night itself had White as a big highlight.

Darnell Mayberry and Gina Mizell of The Athletic wrote up a piece on the backstory to all the draft night hype for White and the Bulls. That piece from The Athletic mentioned that the former Houston Rockets and current Oklahoma City Thunder veteran point guard Chris Paul stated that “the sky is the limit” for White at the next level.

On draft night, the Bulls saw White pop his hair out of his team logo hat and have a memorable reaction to former North Carolina Tar Heels teammate and forward Cam Johnson get selected in the lottery by the Phoenix Suns at No. 11 overall.

Between the reaction for White to Johnson getting selected by the Suns back on June 20 to how he sounded off since then, it seems like his mindset is in the right place. Even Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen and White exchanged kind words since he was drafted last month.

Although the showings for White at Summer League didn’t show much star potential early in his NBA career, a lot of the best young point guards now had bad debuts in Vegas. We shouldn’t take too much stock into the way that White played in Summer League.

A former superstar like Paul buying into what White brings to the table is a high mark to pay for a player that shot just 10 percent from three-point range in Vegas. If White can develop his game more at the outset of the 2019-20 regular season, his lapses in Summer League won’t matter.

While White likely won’t be the starting point guard for the Bulls for the start of this coming regular season, he will get his shot with Boylen down the road. Taking his time to develop his skill set and become a premier guard in the NBA could be a defined path for him.