When the Pistons’ time to select arrived, Tyrese Haliburton’s agent gave him a signal, motioning his hand across his neck, to indicate it wouldn’t be his name called. “What is this, they’re not picking me?” Haliburton said, mimicking his agent’s motion. “And then it flashed up, Killian Hayes, and I was like, ‘What!?’ In that moment I was frustrated, but I knew the Kings were my floor.
But, still in the moment, I was just angry. I was like, ‘What do you mean? They need a point guard and they’re not picking me?’ So that one definitely felt the most personal.”