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Yuta Watanabe: “My goal wasn’t to get drafted. My goal was to make a NBA roster.”

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Imagine being a great basketball player who has dreams of making it to the NBA. You are good enough to play basketball in college. Not only do you play in college but you excel and standout among the best. As a senior you average 16.3 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. After your senior year, playing in the NBA seems like a real possibility.

Going through the draft process the scouts and “draft experts” are saying that at best you are a second round pick but most likely you will go undrafted.