LAS VEGAS -- Billy Preston never thought he'd go undrafted the afternoon he plopped behind the wheel of his car to drive back from a Lawrence, Kansas mall on Nov. 11.
He didn't think he'd lose his one shot to play college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks, or the potentially millions of dollars that go with being a first-round pick by an NBA team.
There was no thought that day to signing a "two-way" contract with the Cavs as his path to the NBA, a contract which mandates he spend half the season in the basketball minor league, the "G" League, at a salary of about $77,000.