In the instant-gratification age of likes, shares and retweets, Stefan Jankovic wanted as little feedback as possible.

It was important, the former Hawaii big man surmised, that as he boarded countless flights across the country for NBA evaluations over the past two months, he keep his head out of the clouds.

“I wanted it to be like every workout was do or die,” Jankovic said told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser in a phone interview from Detroit this week.

Thus he instructed his agent not to pass on glowing comments from team representatives, so as not to get complacent.

Jankovic finds out today whether his auditions for a dozen teams — plus a well-attended pro day in Los Angeles for representatives of all 30 NBA clubs — paid dividends. He will watch the NBA Draft in New York (1 p.m. Hawaii time on ESPN) remotely, with friends and family in Los Angeles, hoping to become the first Rainbow Warrior to hear his name called in 27 years.

Jankovic is considered the top pro prospect among a Hawaii 2016 crop that includes Aaron Valdes, Roderick Bobbitt and Quincy Smith.

Even after averaging 15.2 points and 6.7 rebounds for UH this season en route to Big West Player of the Year honors, the 6-foot-11 Jankovic was a lesser-known commodity to scouts. In his workouts, he made it a priority to display his shooting as a stretch power forward with range all the way out to the NBA 3-point line.

“I feel I did real well in my workouts, surprised a lot of people and showed my stretch 4 capabilities,” Jankovic said. “I shot the NBA 3 probably better than I shot in college. So it’s good. As I said, I expect to get drafted. I say that confidently. But nothing’s guaranteed so you really never know. But I fully expect to get picked up, (then) summer league and all that is in the works, so we’ll see how the draft goes.”

His efforts moved him up on at least one respected big board. On Tuesday he cracked DraftExpress.com’s Top 100, at No. 91. He was previously unrated.

There are 60 spots in the two-round draft.

Jankovic’s agent is Rade Filipovich, president of BDA Sports International. Filipovich (the father of outgoing UH guard Niko Filipovich) is bullish on his client’s chances.

“He has a shot to be drafted. I don’t have any doubts,” Filipovich said. “After Buddy Hield from Oklahoma, he is probably the best shooter in this draft.”

Jankovic said he felt especially good about his workouts with the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, Sacramento Kings, and his hometown Toronto Raptors.

According to the ESPN-endorsed blog Raptors Republic, Jankovic was one of only three players — along with Maryland’s Diamond Stone and Florida’s Dorian Finney-Smith — to be worked out twice by Toronto.

Filipovich said Jankovic is BDA’s best shooter since Klay Thompson went in the 2011 draft. BDA represents several dozen current or former NBA players.

“I think he can go in the late first round, too,” Filipovich said. “This draft there’s not too many super-talented players.”

Jankovic was not alive when the last UH player was drafted — Reggie Cross in 1989. Cross was a second-round pick (44th overall) to the Philadelphia 76ers. UH’s most notable NBA player of recent vintage, Anthony Carter, went undrafted and eventually latched on as a free agent. Carter, incidentally, was also represented by BDA.

Contracts are guaranteed for only first-round picks.

“To say the second round is more realistic, yeah, but the whole ‘undrafted (or) drafted,’ it’s more so making a team right now,” Jankovic said. “That’s my idea of things. Because a lot of guys get picked up in the second round and you never see them in the NBA.”

For a while it seemed that every day of the week, Jankovic was in a workout or was flying to one.

He called it “a grind,” but one that came with the perks of greeting a who’s who of basketball personalities. Pat Riley. Phil Jackson.

One of his favorite moments during his tour was meeting one of his childhood heroes, Peja Stojakovic. During his Sacramento audition, Kings general manager Vlade Divac pitted Jankovic against Stojakovic, the former Kings sharpshooter who is now the team’s director of player personnel.

“It was unreal,” Jankovic said. “We only shot two shots. He missed his. Vlade was on the side, ‘whoever wins is gonna get drafted.’ He was joking around, ‘I’ll draft you again Peja.’ But we only shot ’til we missed. I made my first two and he missed his second one.”

Stefan Jankovic gets a shot today. Will he make it?