From his days at Prime Prep, where he finished his career ranked fifth in the ESPN 100 recruiting rankings, to his college-skipping stint in China, to the Denver Nuggets making him the seventh selection in the 2015 NBA Draft, New York Knicks‘ Emmanuel Mudiay has always been an enigma.
But in the NBA Mudiay has underwhelmed, playing 165 games for Denver, and putting up pedestrian numbers of 11.1 points per game, 4.3 assists, and 3.1 rebounds, on just 38 percent shooting, and 31 percent from three.
As we all know, he ended up being dealt in a three team trade that netted the Nuggets journeyman guard Devin Harris, and Mudiay the change of scenery he so desperately needed.