When Ivica Zubac was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 32nd pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, not much was expected of him. He was just a 19-year-old from Croatia who had played a couple years of pro basketball in Serbia.
Also, the Lakers took Brandon Ingram with the second overall pick in the same draft, and attention was naturally put heavily on him. On a 2016 Summer League team that featured Ingram and D’Angelo Russell, one would have to play pretty well to garner the attention of Lakers fans.
But it was the under-the-radar feeling Zubac had that allowed him to thrive.