Brandon Ingram puts on his metallic draft day suit.

Ingram has become masterful at containing his emotions and blocking out the noise. Growing up, his father, Donald, was a high school and collegiate official — instilling in Brandon a unique respect for referees. "He knows not to yell at them," his father says sheepishly. His mother recalls opposing players looking at his lackadaisical swagger and dismissing him before her son would have a "Clark Kent-to-Superman" transformation on the hardwood. In his freshman season at Duke, the social media criticism was loud early on. He's under-performing. He's being too unselfish. He's not playing with an edge. And heading into this draft, the skeptics pointed to Ingram's slender physique as a clear-cut weakness, all while he was conditioning rigorously and eating six meals a day to bulk up.

"He knows where to direct his emotions," Donald Ingram says. "His response is always on the court. He channels the criticism by winning. That shows a lot about his strength on the inside. Everybody’s talking about his strength on the outside with his frame. But that inner strength is what (the Lakers) are drafting.