People don’t think the last few spots on an NBA roster matter much. That they won’t determine a team’s ultimate success on the court and that talking about it is just a fanboy obsessive compulsion.
Maybe those people are right.
Or maybe those people don’t know about Cory Joseph, the 29th pick in the 2011 draft who sat at the end of the San Antonio Spurs bench his rookie year after making the team.
Joseph ended up sticking with the Spurs, played a modestly impactful role off the bench for the 2013-14 championship team, started 33 games over the past two seasons for The Model franchise in sports, just signed a multi-year with the Toronto Raptors and got a shout out on Drake’s Meek Mill diss track.