But the long-shot is having fun seeing where he stands. Former Alabama player and Childersburg native Gerald Wallace , along with high schooler Ousmane Cisse, turned down invitations to be part of the NBA Pre-Draft camp being held this week at Moody Bible Institute here. Players can still work out individually for teams, and some of those who did not commit to the Pre-Draft Camp might come to Chicago to do just that. They can also have scouts come to them or go to the NBA cities and go through drills at a team's facility. Their absence from the Chicago camp is seen as a ploy to avoid the possibility of a bad performance and hurting their stock, but it is not seen as a death knoll to their draft chances.
Some agents have the philosophy that there's no way they can better themselves, but that's untrue.
If you're a player, you can't do anything but help yourself up here. Come up here and show it. I think there's a lot of pro people that are disappointed, not just in those two, but in others that didn't show. Brewer certainly can't hurt his chances. Already considered unlikely by many to be drafted, he is getting the opportunity to not only impress NBA scouts, coaches and general managers but also to see for himself how he stacks up against the other 66 players at the camp.