Cade Cunningham Just Did Something We May Never See Again | NBA SHOW

Cade Cunningham doesn’t have jump-out-of-the-gym athleticism, so why do people call him the no. 1 pick in the 2021 NBA draft? The pace of play has given rise to a new breed of star: players like Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic who can read the game faster than their opponents can react.

From now on, Cade Cunningham definitely is the No. 1 pick in the draft. He’s ridden the wave of hype rail to rail, dominating with his mentality as much as his skills, more an outlier in the figurative, conceptual sense than the physical one, and certainly not in the statistical realm. It’s rare a prospect like Cunningham comes along, and even rarer to see one so comfortably ordained as the next big thing. Slap whichever adjectives and buzzwords onto him you choose; NBA teams have tried them on for size.