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Wearing his brand new Utah Jazz hat and sitting behind a microphone on draft night, Darryn Peterson was midway through his answer when something else — someone else — caught his attention. “Kobe is my guy, and I’m inspired by him. So I just try to think, what would Kobe do right now? He’d get drafted and move on and try to go be the best possible,” Peterson said. Then the NBA draft’s No. 2 pick glanced up at a television in the room. “I see a guy that went No. 1 on the screen right now,” Peterson said. “So, I’m extra motivated.”

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