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This is SVG first mistake he could have picked up a back-up center if he just got on the phone!!!!
2 years in a row he did this what a mistake.


The 2015 NBA Draft is over, but that doesn't spell the end of the dream for those prospects who didn't get selected. NBA teams have always signed undrafted free agents, whether it's just to showcase their skills at the NBA Summer League or to actual NBA contracts. One of the most famous recent examples is Matthew Dellavedova, who didn't get selected in the 2013 NBA Draft, but quickly inked a contract with Cleveland. The Cavaliers don't win two games in the NBA Finals without him.

We'll use this space to round up every undrafted free agent who signs a contract with a team, whether it's just Summer League or much more. Deals are signed quickly, and in the case of Summer League, players often switch teams up until the event begins. Where there are changes, we will be quick to note them. For now, players are Summer League signings unless otherwise noted.

Here is our list of the top players not to be drafted on Thursday night.
Atlanta Hawks

DeAndre Kane, small forward, Iowa State (possibly more)

Terran Petteway, small forward, Nebraska
Boston Celtics

Royce O'Neale, forward, Baylor

Jonathan Holmes, forward, Texas
Charlotte Hornets

Aaron Harrison, shooting guard, Kentucky
Detroit Pistons

Julian Washburn, guard/forward, UTEP (Orlando Summer League)
Golden State Warriors

Michael Frazier, shooting guard, Florida

Matt Stainbrook, center, Xavier

Julian Washburn, guard/forward, UTEP (Las Vegas Summer League)
Houston Rockets

Denzel Livingston, point guard, Incarnate Word

Christian Wood, power forward, UNLV
Los Angeles Lakers

Brandon Ashley, power forward, Arizona

Robert Upshaw, center, Washington
Miami Heat

Willie Reed, center, Iowa Energy

Seth Tuttle, power forward, Northern Iowa
Oklahoma City Thunder

Quinn Cook, point guard, Duke
Orlando Magic

Youssou Ndoye, center, St. Bonaventure
Philadelphia 76ers

K.T. Harrell, shooting guard, Auburn

Vince Hunter, power forward, UTEP

Jamal Jones, small forward, Texas A&M

T.J. McConnell, PG, Arizona
San Antonio Spurs

Wayne Blackshear, small forward, Louisville

Treveon Graham, shooting guard, VCU
Utah J***

Wesley Saunders, shooting guard, Harvard
Washington Wizards

Dez Wells, shooting guard, Maryland (possibly more than Summer League)
More from SBNation.com

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2015/6/26/8850787/nba-best-undrafted-free-agents-summer-league

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/20...agents-summer-leagueThis is SVG first mistake he could have picked up a back-up center if he just got on the phone!!!!

Wow. My faith in SVG is truly shaken now.

Truly.

The lions pick up players every year this way SVG missed out you snooze you lose

if players like Matthew Dellavedova are out there that help you go to the finals you grab them.If SVG was smart we should have signed him last year

]Aaron Harrison, shooting guard, Kentucky
Detroit Pistons

Harrison was one of the heroes of Kentucky's surprising run to the 2014 NCAA Tournament final, hitting clutch threes throughout the Wildcats' charmed existence in March Madness. The 2015 edition of Kentucky, though, found Harrison doing things less efficiently than freshman Devin Booker.

i have to give him credit for this signing he is a good player but we have many shooting guards /svg must be planing on trading one of them.

By Ross Kelly

Last night 60 young men heard their name called in the NBA Draft. But that doesn’t mean the end of a dream for those who weren’t selected. Hundreds of players have gone onto play in the NBA without being drafted including cult favorites Jeremy Lin and Jamario Moon. As is the case with the draft in every sport, great players somehow always fall through the cracks and go unnoticed by coaches and scouts. But with drive, determination, and a bit of luck, there’s still a chance to make the league. These players did just that. Here is our list of the top undrafted players in NBA history:

10. Darrell Armstrong – DA navigated through five different pro leagues in three countries before making it to the NBA at the age of 26. Despite the late start, Armstrong would play in the league until 39 with nine of those years spent in Orlando. In 1999 he became the only player to win the Sixth Man of the Year Award and the Most Improved Player Award in the same season. He even received a couple of MVP votes in both 1998-99 and 1999-00. Armstrong is currently a player development assistant with the Dallas Mavericks.

9. Reggie Evans – Reggie Evans may be the active player who most closely resembles Dennis Rodman, on the court that is. Nicknamed “The Collector”, Evans is an absolute rebounding machine despite being just 6’8” and not having the greatest hops in the world. Total rebound percentage is the percentage of rebounds that a player grabs while he is on the floor and through the 2014-15 season, Evans ranks second all-time in that statistic (21.87%). The one man he trails is, of course, Rodman (23.44%).

8. Raja Bell – Deemed too small and not a great shooter, Bell was undrafted out of FIU in 1999. After a season in the CBA, he would make his way to the NBA and spend 12 seasons there. He is best known for his four seasons with the “Seven Seconds or Less” Phoenix Suns sharing the backcourt with Steve Nash. Bell was one of the first “3-and-D” wings before the phrase became vogue as he was a 2x member of the All-Defensive team and a career 41% three-point shooter.

7. Udonis Haslem – “UD” is still going strong with the Miami Heat and just finished his 12th season. Besides playing one year overseas, he has spent his entire life in the state of Florida after being born in Miami and attending UF. Haslem is the Heat franchise’s all-time leader in rebounds and is a three-time NBA champion. He’s been through it all in Miami and seems destined to join the team’s basketball operations team once he retires a la Alonzo Mourning and Juwan Howard.

6. Avery Johnson – After attending three colleges and playing in the USBL, Johnson finally made his way to the NBA in 1988. He would go on to play 16 seasons with most of that time coming with the San Antonio Spurs. He won a title with the Spurs in 1999 and is currently the all-time leader in career assists for an undrafted player.

5. Bruce Bowen – Long before Shane Battier became the posterchild for the “No-Stats All-Star”, there was Bruce Bowen. The 13 year NBA veteran was arguably the best perimeter defender of his era as evident by his eight All-Defensive team selections. He didn’t score, rebound, or assist much; but his on-ball defense was pivotal to three of the Spurs championship teams. The Spurs showed their appreciation for Bowen by retiring his number in 2012.

4. John Starks – Best known for his time with the Knicks, Starks went undrafted due in part to off-the-court problems. He was kicked out of three colleges before ending his career at Oklahoma State. He would eventually make his way to the NBA and played 13 seasons, eight of which came in New York. Starks is the first undrafted player to make an All-Star team (1994) and he also was the Sixth Man of the Year in 1997. When he retired he ranked 12th all-time in three pointers made and currently works for the Knicks in a fan development role.

3. Wes Matthews – It’s still a wonder why Matthews was undrafted out of Marquette. He was a four-year starter who played in the NCAA tournament each year and is also the son of a former NBA player. Since entering the league in 2009, Matthews has been one of the best two-way shooting guards in the league and the NBA’s “ironman” before suffering a torn Achilles’ tendon last season. If he’s able to return back to the form he displayed before the injury, Matthews has a good chance to end up even higher on this list.

2. Brad Miller – One of the best-passing big men of his era, Miller debuted in the NBA in the 1998-1999 season. He bounced around a couple of teams before finding his niche with the Pacers and Kings and made an All-Star team with each. With the Kings, he was part of the triumvirate with Vlade Divac and Chris Webber that revolutionized the Princeton offense with their uncanny passing ability. Miller would play 14 seasons in the NBA and also won two bronze medals at the FIBA World Championships with Team USA (1998, 2006).

1. Ben Wallace – The 4x Defensive Player of the Year would have been a part of that epic 1996 NBA Draft had he been selected, but he was passed over and signed with the Washington Bullets. He would go on to have his most success as a member of the Detroit Pistons where he was a 4x All-Star and won a title in 2004. Big Ben is the all-time leader among undrafted players in games played, rebounds, and blocked shots. In a couple of years Wallace has a very good chance of becoming the first, legitimate undrafted player in NBA history to be elected for the Hall of Fame.

Ross Kelly is an Associated Producer for CBS Local Sports. He is from Louisiana and is a fan of all sports, but not of any teams (except LSU). He can be reached at ross.kelly@cbs.com..

kellmellus50 wrote:]
i have to give him credit for this signing he is a good player but we have many shooting guards /svg must be planing on trading one of them.

I'm not so sure Van Gundy would be planning on trading one of our SGs simply because Rich Cho signed Harrison to the Hornets' summer league roster.

Even if it had been the Pistons that signed Harrison, you don't trade your roster pieces because you signed an undrafted guy to be on your summer league team. Obviously you can find undrafted success stories, but they are so few and far between you don't pick a guy up and shake up your roster because of it.

By the way, does that article that you just posted include the percentage of undrafted players that end up playing meaningful minutes?

We should have definitely grabbed a center as we should have an opening there for a lot of playing time to offer a kid who's trying to earn a gig in the NBA, NBADL or Europe.

"Problem" with Stan is that he doesn't want to screw a kid over and we don't have playing time or realistic chance at making our roster and he won't make false promises that we do. Dinwiddie, Hilliard, Johnson, QMiller will get most of our minutes at the 1 though 4 positions, GR Drive star Adonis Thomas will get back-up minutes at SF and PF as well. They have signed former Canisius point guard Billy Baron to the SL team (Bowers coached against him a couple years ago while at Marist).

Dinwiddie|Baron
Hilliard
Johnson|Thomas
Miller|Thomas
????

I saw that Hasheem Thabeet in on the NBA DL squad they put in one of the leagues, I wonder if Pistons will use GR Drive's Daniel Orton on their roster at center.

That top ten ever list shows just how unlikely it is to get an impact undrafted player.

Stan didn't draft Winslow, so now he's an incompetent fool...

Lol, well be fine not signing players no body wanted to commit too. Is this thread serious?


Detroit vs Everybody

SVG had 57 players come in to practice why did they not sign some of them to the summer league to try and make the team.

Big deal.

All you guys were unhappy last year because we did not make the playoffs well if we could have found a couple of players by doing this it could have been differant.

Jackson
Jennings
Dinwiddie
Caldwell-Pope
Meeks
Martin
Hilliard
Johnson
Ilyasova
Tolliver
Miller
Drummond

That's 12 players, still need room for a starting SF and two back-up Ce's - maxing out our roster. Now assume only one of Martin/Hilliard make the team, we're still at 14 and Stan likes the open roster spot.

I don't think we even have room for a center look-see here because I assume Anthony is coming back to be our 3rd center, with a better center signed as primary back-up.

Also and most importantly - Summer League players can be signed by any team, they're not locked into any exclusive contract. So if a player looks really good for another team, the Pistons could still sign them.

haha these threads/comments are hilarious. You know it's offseason when we're talking about undrafted scrubs and late second rounders as if they're rotation players.
I thought Kim english could be a good back up sg too. hahah how did that go.
as mentioned above, the list of all time best undrafted players is why this is stupid.

Anthony is not coming back too much money for a back-up that's a spot that would be good for an undrafted pick-up.

Would've been nice to pick up a guy like Upshaw but it's not a huge deal. I'm more interested in seeing Stanley go head to head with Winslow in the summer league and getting some experience.

Ok

This thread is dumb.