Money can buy you many things, but it can’t buy you passion, true grit, and heart.
There are few people who get to play the game they love beyond their high school years, and even fewer make it to the collegiate level. Only a small handful gets to see their number sent to the rafters, let alone without a year passing since you graduated. It’s hard to imagine there’s one player on the Cavaliers who achieved all of these things yet went undrafted in 2013. Luckily for the wine and gold, former Cavaliers GM Chris Grant and staff had been watching this particular player closely, and worked the phones to make deal after midnight on draft day.