Do you know who your favorite basketball player is going to be three years from now?

We do. Bol Bol.

Why are we so sure? Let’s count the reasons.

1. He is going to be really good. Bol was one of the top recruits in the country, ranked No. 4 in the Class of 2018 by ESPN and No. 3 by 247 Sports. He has been dunking since sixth grade. He has committed to play at Oregon. After one season he is expected to go pro and is projected to be drafted in 2019 somewhere from No. 2 (NBA Draft Room) to No. 4 (nbadraft.net). But simply being good does not make someone your favorite, which leads us to:

2. He is the son of Manute Bol. The 7-foot-6 Manute was one of the most likable players in NBA history.

Seriously, did you ever hear anyone say: “I just don’t care to watch Manute Bol play. I just don’t enjoy watching him shoot a 3.” (He made 43 in his career.)

Besides the joy he brought to fans with his long-armed shot blocking, he earned goodwill through his humanitarian efforts to help his native Sudan rebuild from a civil war before his death from kidney trouble and a skin disorder at age 47 in 2010.

3. He has a similar build to his father. Bol Bol has the spindly frame that helped make his father famous. He is 7 feet 1½ inches, and he weighs just 220 or 225 pounds. “No, I’m probably not going to put on 50 pounds of muscle,” he said in an article on the Players’ Tribune this week announcing his college choice. “I’ve been trying. Not happening.”

His size was probably inevitable. Manute told The New York Times in 1985: “My mother was 6 feet 10, my father 6 feet 8 and my sister is 6 feet 8. And my great-grandfather was even taller — 7 feet 10.”

4. He has some skills that his father did not. Manute averaged 2.6 points a game in his NBA career. Bol Bol averaged 22 points in summer league. “I’m not my dad,” he wrote. “He was a true big man, a guy who played in the paint and blocked shots. But I like to work from the perimeter. I like to put the ball on the floor. I get a lot of satisfaction from passing to someone who’s more open than me.”

5. He seems refreshingly candid. Bol Bol likes athletic equipment. “Shoes. I’ve always been really into them,” he said on the Players’ Tribune. Why did he pick Oregon? He does not offer a lot of platitudes.

“We got to go into a room someone said was known as the Phil Knight room. It was this special room where they showcase all the new Oregon gear Nike is working on. What I saw in there blew me away. Shoes lined up on chairs. Custom Oregon colorway Jordans. Like 13 different jersey combinations. Nike stuff that hasn’t come out yet. Those Jordan 4 Oregon retros that LeBron was wearing recently — they had those in there. Rare ones. I was going crazy in there, man. For a kid obsessed with shoes, that was like heaven.”

6. His name is Bol Bol. It is a great one. You rooted for God Shammgod of Providence and Baskerville Holmes of Memphis State to make the NBA. Bol Bol can succeed where those delightfully named college stars came up short.

A lot can happen to a young player’s career. But plenty of fans will be rooting for Bol to succeed. And you probably will too.