While nearly half of the 60 selections in the 2014 NBA Draft were early entrants, there were many left without a team at the end of the 2nd round on Thursday night. A handful will sign low-risk high-incentive summer league deals but most will be forced to hop the pond for a non-glamorous deal overseas.
Those undrafted players included the following:
James Michael McAdoo (North Carolina)
The 6’9″ former blue-chip recruit and tweener forward could have potentially been a lottery selection in 2012 following a strong finish to his freshman season but elected for two more seasons in Chapel Hill, two seasons that produced good numbers but destroyed his draft stock.
Jahii Carson (Arizona State)
The two-year starter that averaged 36 minutes and 18-plus points for his career was left hanging. Scouts dissected his jump shot and one-dimensional ball-handling game but Carson’s non-selection came as a shock to many.
LaQuinton Ross (Ohio State)
What happens when you arrive at the NBA Combine with the highest body fat percentage (16.3 percent) of any prospect and a questionable weight of 238-pounds? Your stock plummets from early-2nd rounder to undrafted.
Sim Bhullar (New Mexico State)
Only the NCAA tourney diehards remember Sim Bhullar, the behemoth 7’5″, 350-pound center from New Mexico State. He was graded as a late-2nd rounder or undrafted FA therefore this is little surprise but one must believe injuries will catch up to that massive frame, giving him limited time to capitalize on professional earnings.
Chane Behanan (Colorado State)
The embattled and undersized 6’6″ power forward was tossed from Louisville in December, signed with CSU a month later and declared for the draft in April but was never high on teams’ charts. His inside game would never hold up in the NBA at that size.
Roscoe Smith (UNLV)
Another recognizable name in the former UConn transfer, Roscoe Smith entered early after two better-than-expected years in Vegas but he also fits the Behanan type of an undersized rebounding-heavy forward.
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