EVOLUTION
THE ISAAC OKORO you see today—the one who’s leading a highly ranked Auburn team as a freshman and sure to be an NBA lottery pick come June—exists because the old Isaac Okoro was, well, terrible.
Omar Cooper, Isaac’s AAU coach through high school, remembers this tall, energetic 8-year-old who used to fall a lot.
“You couldn’t even tell he was an athlete back then,” says Cooper of the first time he met Isaac. “You could just tell he had some energy. He was trying to do something. Whatever he was trying to do, he was trying to do something [laughs].”
To put it lightly, the game did not come naturally to Okoro.
Or, as he puts it: “I was literally the worst person
