Jahlil Okafor -- CBSSports.com's Preseason Player of the Year
Posted Oct 15, 2014
But for every Kevin Durant -- who told me, matter-of-factly, a month before his one year at Texas began that he planned to be the nation's best college basketball player -- there are 10 other still-trying-to-get-comfortable prospects less willing to acknowledge internal and external pressures, which is why I was pleased when Jahlil Okafor showed himself to be more of the exception than the rule.
(CBS Sports)
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