“It’s an emotional thing and crazy to me because of the whole process I had to go through,” Mann told The Undefeated. “All of that was playing back in my head. You started at Portsmouth. You did all this stuff. You almost didn’t go to the NBA pre-draft camp. The 48th pick. The G League. Things start hitting you like, ‘Dang, you really did something for yourself.’ “It was just an emotional thing. No tears or nothing. Just really sitting back and reflecting like, ‘How the hell did I actually do this?’ ”