By now, it’s an oft told tale, how Spencer Dinwiddie became the player he is today, but the story usually starts when he’s traded by the Pistons, cut by the Bulls or down in the D (now G) League.
But in his inaugural piece for The Athletic New York, Nets beat writer Mike Scotto goes back to Dinwiddie’s junior year at Colorado where he and the Buffaloes were riding high. The kid who passed on Harvard because he thought he wouldn’t get the attention he needed went down hard in Pac-12 conference game at Washington.