Before you blow a gasket about this article, there is not anything bad with a talented basketball player going undrafted.
In some ways, players have more control of their destiny when they are undrafted because they choose the team whose tryouts they will participate in; being optimistic. Another way to look at going undrafted is that no one is interested in you; the pessimistic thought process.
There have been numerous players who went undrafted and became successful NBA players, including Jeremy Lin (Charlotte Hornets), J.J. Barea (Dallas Mavericks), Raja Bell, Udonis Haslem (Miami Heat), Brad Miller, Darrell Armstrong, Jose Calderon (New York Knicks), Bruce Bowen, Avery Johnson, John Starks and Ben Wallace.