When Bol Bol was asked on the NBA Draft stage last month to describe his unique basketball tool kit, moments after being acquired by the Nuggets in the middle of the second round, his answer was a siren call to the internet age.



“You guys have seen it on YouTube,” he told ESPN’s Maria Taylor. “Pretty much going to bring that to the NBA, plus more.”



The videos Bol referenced have piled up millions of views since he was a 6-foot-5 seventh-grader, the rangy son of former NBA player Manute Bol who was already demonstrating a guard’s skill set despite towering heads and shoulders above kids his age.



The highlights built a hysteria that made Bol famous long before he showed up to the draft last month in a head-turning suit adorned with a bedazzled spider web. Bol’s basketball life unfolded on the internet for all to see, a reality that belies his almost painfully quiet nature. It’s part of the reason Bol is entering...