Bryn Forbes could always shoot.
“And if you have a skill,” said Gregg Popovich, the San Antonio Spurs’ coach, “you have a chance to make it in this league.”
Getting a shot is one thing, though. Making it is another in the NBA.
But as Forbes kept putting up shots during warm-ups Monday night, an hour before the Spurs’ game against the Pistons at Little Caesars Arena, it wasn’t hard to see how the former Michigan State guard and Lansing native managed to split the difference.
Or how he proved the skeptics wrong, not just by making an NBA roster after going undrafted in 2016, but now by emerging as a reliable starter for a surging San Antonio team, averaging 12.