Goodluck Okonoboh resisted a chance to experience the VIP treatment most basketball players will never experience. He was invited, by his good friend and former teammate Nerlens Noel, to sit in the NBA draft green room last month when Noel was the sixth overall pick. Okonoboh’s reason for not participating was as much a gamble as it was motivation. “I didn’t really want to go to the green room, I’m waiting for my turn,” said the 6-foot-9 forward from Wilbraham & Monson Academy in Massachusetts. “I don’t want to spoil it.” Count Louisville’s Rick Pitino, Indiana’s Tom Crean and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim among the many coaches who see his potential.
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