Rawle Alkins spent two seasons as a small forward at Arizona but he isn’t marketing himself as one for the NBA.
He says he’s much more flexible than that.
“I’m telling you there’s no positions,” Alkins said during a post-workout interview in Sacramento, when asked where he would play in the NBA. “It’s funny – a scout I was talking to at the Combine said I was on his ‘All-Jack’ team. At first I didn’t know what that meant. He explained to me it was all jack of all trades. That’s something I value. It’s nice to see when people value you the way you value yourself.”
Alkins said the teams he’s spoken with “love the fact that I’m labeled as positionless” because they can put him wherever needed.
“The NBA is a fast-paced game,” Alkins said in the interview posted to the Kings' Twitter page. “If you look at playoff basketball right now – the Houston Rockets and Warriors – there’s no centers, no really positions on the court. It’s just fast-paced basketball.”
Alkins is reportedly scheduled to work out for the Suns next week (the Suns typically don't announce workout participants until an hour beforehand).
The Kings, meanwhile, will also take a look at Dusan Ristic on Friday and Allonzo Trier on May 31. Trier is scheduled to work out for Minnesota on Friday.
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