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NBA Superlatives: Pelicans guard Frank Jackson

The first pick of Round 2 in the 2017 NBA Draft, New Orleans shooting guard Frank Jackson was forced to wait until Oct. 17, 2018, to make his official professional debut, after sitting out a full season due to a foot injury. As it turns out, that second round from three years ago has been quite productive, with Jackson (112 career games) among a dozen draftees to make over 100 regular season appearances. Among the relatively deep group of contributing second-rounders from ’17, the only players with higher career scoring averages than Jackson (7.0) are Memphis’ Dillon Brooks (12.