CHICAGO – D’Angelo Russell was a McDonald’s All-American. He had scholarship offers from Louisville, Indiana, Xavier, and Purdue at the age of 15. But no one – not even Russell – expected what he’s experiencing after just one season of college basketball. The 6-foot-5 combo guard out of Ohio State sat in the interview room at the NBA combine Friday afternoon, surrounded by a throng of media members and cameras, answering questions about being one of the top four prospects in the June 25 NBA draft. “I honestly thought I would be a four-year player,” Russell said Friday at the Quest Multisport Complex. “I didn’t think my body would pan out right. . . . I didn’t think that I had the knowledge. “But after playing my first year and really just changing my body and gaining the proper knowledge, I knew I had the potential to be here. I just ran with it.”
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