Isaiah Whitehead to Announce NBA Plans on Thursday

Seton Hall sophomore point guard Isaiah Whitehead will announce his future plans on Thursday, with sources telling SNY.tv he will remain in the NBA Draft.

Will Make An Decision On The 19th Whether Or Not To Stay In The Draft ��
– Isaiah Whitehead (@IsaiahW_15) May 15, 2016

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The Brooklyn native is currently projected as the No. 58 pick in 2016 by DraftExpress.com, but he’s hoping to go higher than that.

“Definitely, I definitely want to be a first-round pick,” Whitehead, 21, told me at the NBA Draft Combine. “But it depends on how I play in these workouts, to tell you the truth. If I play bad, I can’t expect anything. So I really gotta just keep grinding, keep getting better so when I get to these workouts, I can knock them out the park.”

He currently has workouts scheduled with Philadelphia (Monday), Indiana (Wednesday), Boston (Friday) and Chicago (May 23).

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