Pitt's Jeff Capel offers up-close insight on NBA Draft

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Pitt's Jeff Capel offers up-close insight on NBA Draft

Jerry DiPaola | Friday, May 24, 2019 9:34 a.m.

Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel, right, reacts to a call during the first half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Boston College in the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s tournament in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)

Jeff Capel’s interest in this year’s NBA Draft goes beyond that of most Pittsburghers, actually most people in general.

Before he became Pitt’s coach, Capel was directly involved in recruiting Duke stars Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish. When the NBA Draft opens June 20, Williamson is the likely No. 1 pick of the New Orleans Pelicans. Barrett and Reddish are projected by many mock drafts, including USA Today, CBS Sports and Bleacher Report, to go third and eighth to the Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks.

During an interview Wednesday on the MSG Network, Capel offered his opinions on Barrett and Vanderbilt’s Darius Garland, a former Duke target who is the consensus No. 6 pick, to the Phoenix Suns, by those three news outlets.

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