Fil-Am Remy Martin to Enter 2020 NBA Draft

It looks like someone will beat Kai Sotto as potentially the next Filipino to be drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Remy Martin is a Filipino-American basketball player who is making noise in the United States as he was named as a part of the first team all-Pacific-12 (Pac-12) by the Associated Press during the 2019-2020 season while playing for the Arizona State University Sun Devils. For the season, he led ASU with 19 points, four assists, and three rebounds and was primed to lead the Sun Devils into the US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) until the NCAA was forced to cancel the playoffs due to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. And while there's no saying as to when the NCAA will resume, Remy Martin already has his future planned.

Recently, he has declared his intention to join the 2020 NBA Draft.

In a statement, Martin said that everything he has worked since at a young age, it was all for one dream: an opportunity to play in the grandest basketball league in the world. In the same statement, Martin also said that he'll forever cherish his time with the Sun Devils that saw him become one of the exciting young guards in the United States. And if you've seen him play in the last three seasons, you would imagine him being the next Steph Curry of the NBA with the athleticism of Russell Westbrook due to Martin's ability to get to the ring with ease. Of course, he can shoot from virtually everywhere on the court. 

There's no doubt that given the exposure that Remy Martin got during his three-year stint with ASU, many pundits believe that the 21-year old guard is NBA-ready. 

Now, if we look at the mock draft for the 2020 NBA Draft, Martin is to be picked at 58th overall and the player that pundits are comparing Martin? Speedy Claxton who won an NBA championship in 2003 with the San Antonio Spurs. And that's not a bad comparison.

In other words, Remy Martin is on his way to making his NBA dream a reality. The only question is will it happen this year. 

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