For years, every NBA team has been on the hunt for the elusive 3-and-D wing. Every team needs them, and needs as many as they can get. For a long time, Jae Crowder fit that description. He couldn’t score off the dribble or create his own offense, but he could defend well, switch easily, and could get hot from behind the arc.
The Dallas Mavericks are well aware of his game, having obtained him in a draft day deal in 2012. Crowder was later shipped to the Boston Celtics in the Dwight Powell trade (Rajon Rondo was thrown in as a sweetener) and for the better part of a decade was a perennial character in the playoffs.