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Who is Emmanuel Mudiay?

Published May. 28, 2015 11:59 a.m. ET

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It's weird that Emmanuel Mudiay has been labeled as "the question mark" of this year's draft just because he played a season in China. Scouts have been heading over to China to watch him all year, and let's not pretend like he came out of nowhere. He was one of the top high school recruits in the country only a year ago, before breaking his commitment to SMU and heading to China to play pro ball. He's not much of a mystery to NBA teams, but he is one to fans, apparently.

That's why the scouting reports can help.

Posting & Toasting, the wonderful Knicks blog, has a nice writeup on Mudiay, his skills and what to expect from him at the next level. Owning the No. 4 pick in June's upcoming draft, the Knicks could certainly end up drafting him. Want to know a little about him before? He's a nice snippet from the P&T piece:

Click here to read the full article.

Mudiay would be an interesting fit inside the Knicks triangle offense. A ball-screen heavy guard who isn't a known shooter will have to find a different way to contribute. Or the Knicks would have to adapt to his style.

Still, this is all just speculation. We have no idea if Mudiay is bound to be a Knick or not. I guess we'll just have to wait.

(H/t to MMiranda at Posting & Toasting.)

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Emmanuel Mudiay was born in Kinshasha, in the Congo, where he lived until he was five. He lost his father and lived through a civil war that made bombings, gunfire, and ethnic violence an everyday reality. His family moved to Arlington, Texas, where Mudiay played high school ball at Prime Prep, a charter school founded by Deion Sanders which is now defunct and facing serious debts and lawsuits. After Prime Prep was exposed as a fraudulent institution, there were questions about Mudiay's transcripts at Southern Methodist University, where he was going to run the point for James Dolan's Public Enemy #1, Larry Brown. Mudiay decided to bypass the headache and instead earn a little over a million dollars playing for the Guangdong Southern Tigers of the Chinese Basketball League (CBL).

He's faced adversity throughout his life and seems to find a way to rise above to where he wants to be. Nice to see that in a potential point guard.

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