Clarkson joining Lakers as a second
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Clarkson, who averaged 17.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists during his only season in Columbia after spending the first two years of his college career at Tulsa, is the first player to end up with Lakers on draft night since Kareem Rush was taken by the Toronto Raptors and traded to Los Angeles in 2002.
The Lakers also chose Anthony Peeler with the 15th pick in 1992.
Clarkson slid lower than many draft analysts predicted, including ESPN's Chad Ford, who earlier this week had him going to the Utah Jazz with the No. 23 pick and in his final mock draft predicted he'd land with the Los Angeles Clippers at No. 28. His fall kept him from being the first Missouri player drafted in the first round since the Memphis Grizzlies took DeMarre Carroll with the 27th pick in the 2009 draft.
Teams were intrigued by Clarkson's size and athleticism. He stands 6-foot-5 tested well at last month's NBA scouting combine, ranking third in agility testing and in the top 10 in both standing vertical leap and maximum vertical leap, at more than 38 inches.
But there are also questions about Clarkson's perimeter shooting and feel for the point guard position. He only shot 19 for 76 (25 percent) from beyond the 3-point arc after Jan. 1 - a span of 23 games - and had 67 assists and 62 turnovers during the same stretch. He finished the season making only 28.1 percent of his 3-point attempts.
Clarkson rebuilt his shot with the help of trainer Drew Hanlen after declaring for the draft and earned positive reviews at the combine and during workouts over the past six weeks. But he still saw seven point prospects - Australian Dante Exum at No. 5, Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart at No. 6, Louisiana Lafayette's Elfrid Payton at No. 10, UCLA's Zach LaVine at No. 13, Syracuse's Tyler Ennis at No. 18, Connecticut's Shabazz Napier at No. 24 and Colorado's Spencer Dinwiddie at No. 38 - taken ahead of him last night.
His selection still extended a streak of three straight years with a Missouri player taken after Kim English and Marcus Denmon were drafted in the second round in 2012 and Alex Oriakhi was selected in the second round last season. It's the first time that has happened since the NBA cut the draft from seven rounds to three in 1988 and two a year later.
The second round passed with former Missouri player Jabari Brown's name not called, marking the second straight year that a Tiger skipped his final year of eligibility but did not get picked. Brown, who averaged an SEC-leading 19.9 points last season and shot 41 percent from beyond the 3-point arc, will try to impress in the NBA Summer League and latch onto an NBA roster the way Phil Pressey did last year as an undrafted free agent.
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