Anthony Davis – photo by Charles Rex Arbogast | AP
It won’t be long now. In just four days, Anthony Davis will be wearing his Sunday best, the global spotlight trained upon his slender silhouette, as NBA Commissioner David Stern, taking his cue from a television floor producer as he steps to the podium at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., says into the camera … “With the first pick of the 2012 NBA Draft, the New Orleans Hornets select … ” In seconds, the most obvious selection in the draft in nearly a decade — since LeBron James went No. 1 overall to the Cavaliers in 2003 — will be made and Davis, who admitted this week he’s living a dream, becomes what the Hornets hope will be a valued piece of the future, one the team hopes to be vital to the process that includes perennial title aspirations.
