The annual draft conference is the first step for some young players to enter NBA, but in the talented draft conference, not everyone can enter the lottery zone, and some players even find it difficult to enter the league through the draft. But it does not mean that losing the draft proves that their strength is not as good as others. Many players can still win the favor of some teams after the draft. Compared with those high-ranking players, their NBA starting point is undoubtedly lower, but in order to stay in this cruel league, they will spend more time and energy to improve themselves more.
Today is the 43rd birthday of retired Detroit Pistons star Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace , who lost in the 1996 draft, gained a foothold in the NBA with his outstanding defense and rebounds, and grew into one of the best defenders in the league. It is not easy to gain a foothold in the fiercely competitive NBA, and it is even more difficult to play in an All-Star career. There are many NBA drafts like Ben Wallace, and not everyone can make a counterattack like him. The current Nets' Jeremy Lin is also a undrafted draft, but when the opportunity comes, Jeremy Lin swept the world with a wave of "Lin Crazy" and has now become a powerful point guard in the NBA. Let’s review the lineup composed of those undrafts.
Point guard: Avery Johnson . Avery Johnson, nicknamed "Little General", was the 1988 NBA draft, but the Seattle Supersonics gave him the chance to prove himself. In the first two years of his career, Johnson got very little playing time, and often he could even play in garbage time. It is difficult to perform as long as he is without playing time. He has been in 5 teams in the first six years of his career. In the 94-95 season, Avery Johnson, who is 1.78 meters tall, officially settled in the position of the main point guard of the Spurs and the beginning of this season, and he ushered in the golden period of his career. In the 95-96 season, Johnson averaged 13.1 points, 2.5 rebounds, 9.6 assists and 1.5 steals per game. Johnson's style of play is calm and not like the point guards are now shooting wildly on the outside. Avery Johnson only made 186 shots outside the three-point line in his 16-year career, and his shooting percentage is only 14.5%. In the 98-99 season, Johnson helped the Spurs win the first NBA championship in team history, and his No. 6 jersey was retired by the Spurs.
Scoreback : Wesley Matthews . Matthews, the current main shooting guard of the Mavericks, was the NBA undraft in 2009, but the Utah Jazz gave him a chance. Matthews' performance averaged 9.4 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game during the rookie season was eye-catching. The Dwyane Wade's college alumnus became the team's main shooting guard after joining the Trail Blazers, averaging 16.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 0.9 steals per game in the 13-14 season. Matthews is strong and has a good outside shooting. In the summer of 2015, Matthews received a four-year, $70 million contract from the Mavericks. In the Mavericks' two seasons, Matthews is still one of the team's starting lineup, but his efficiency has declined slightly compared with the Trail Blazers' period.
Center: Ben Wallace . There were many talents in the 1996 NBA Draft. Big Ben Wallace was the undraft in this draft, but this did not prevent him from playing as high as he deserved in the field he was good at. Before the Pistons, the 2.06-meter short center rarely had a chance to perform in the Wizards, but he still used his excellent physical fitness to make up for his shortcomings in height. In the 200-01 season, Ben Wallace, who switched to the Pistons, averaged 6.4 points, 13.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 1.3 steals and 2.3 blocks per game, winning the best defensive player of the year for the first time in his career. From then on, Ben Wallace made the Pistons' inside line into a no-fly zone. Even though many people know that the Pistons have a short center, they also know that it is not easy to score points in the inside line guarded by Big Ben. The short center won a total of 4 defensive players of the year with the Pistons, 2 rebounding champions, 1 block champion and 4 All-Star teams. In 2004, Da Ben helped the Pistons win the NBA Championship trophy again after many years.
Small forward: Jonathan Simmons . Spurs Inspirational Brother Simmons won a three-year, $20 million contract this summer. The player who almost gave up basketball and became a barber resolutely worked towards his dream with his obsession with basketball. Simmons lost the election in the 12th draft, and then went to the Development League. God will never let down if you work hard! In the summer of 2015, Simmons received a two-year contract of 1.4 million US dollars for the Spurs and entered the NBA since then. Simmons has excellent physical fitness, and under the concept of Spurs team basketball, Simmons can still find many opportunities to perform. Although his playing time is still short, Simmons seizes all opportunities to seize because he has four daughters waiting for him to raise. Simmons performed very well with the Spurs last season. Now Simmons has obtained a contract from the Magic, and his performance in the new season is becoming more and more worthy of fans' expectations.
Power forward: Udunis Haslem . The NBA is a business world, but it is not lacking in sentiment. The current captain of the Heat , Heat , Haslem was out of the draft in 2003, but he has been fighting for the Heat since the 2003-04 season. Haslem is also a short inside player, but his tough attitude and physical fitness are enough for him to fight in the NBA-level insider. Haslem is a blue-collar player. He was able to average 12 points, 9 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 0.8 steals and 0.4 blocks in his season with the best data. Even though he is the team's substitute for most of the time, he is still the soul of the Heat's locker room.
The sixth person: John Starks . In the NBA in the 1990s, the competition for the East District was extremely fierce. Among them, the New York Knicks' small guard John Starks was eye-catching. Starks lost the draft in the 1988 draft in the 1988 draft played for the Golden State Warriors in the season, but was cut in just 36 games. In the 90-91 season, Starks got the opportunity given by the Knicks, and he also proved in his own way that he could stay in the league. In the 93-94 season, Starks was selected into the All-Star lineup with averaging 19 points, 3.1 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game, while Starks, who served as a substitute in the 96-97 season, won the sixth man of the season with averaging 13.8 points, 2.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game.
