Moritz Wagner doesn’t like the mock drafts in the NBA. He explained that he was concerned with something else. He also commented on the comparisons with Dirk Nowitzki and the March Madness experience.
“First or second round? When was a mock draft right? I don’t care,” said Moritz Wagner in an interview with BIG when asked if he would follow the usual mock drafts, in which his name also appears.
He did not want to comment on a specific interest of certain NBA teams. Because “a lot always comes from the NBA teams. And of course it is important to have a good market value. But that’s not my point. My point is that in my life I feel ready to take the next step.”
Someone with a lot of experience in the NBA is Dirk Nowitkzi – with whom Wagner has often been compared. This honors him, but “this is very inflated here in the USA. You have to leave the Dirk alone for a change, poor man.” For him, it was simply a matter of being Moritz Wagner and nobody else.
There are no concrete plans for the future at Wagner yet – anyway, he prefers to keep an eye on the big picture. “A lot of people come up to me and say,’What will you buy with your first money?'” I’m not buying anything. “I’m going to invest in staying in the NBA to spend my career there.”
The March Madness, in which he failed with the Wolverines only in the final because of the Villanova Wildcats, he also let pass once again in review: “This is something you will never experience again – no matter where you play. Every basket was extremely loud. It was as if an entire country was screaming,” he said of the frenetic fans at the Final Four.
He does not want to attach too much importance to the hype about his person in the meantime: “I tried not to let it get to me at all. That’s what happens when you win a few games. I had something like this last year. That’s why I was used to it.”