When the San Antonio Spurs signed Brandon Paul to a fully guaranteed two-year deal last summer — pulling him straight out of the 2017 Summer League — it was a move that brought the undrafted player from 2013 to the NBA for the first time. Paul spent time in the Summer League and G League the previous four years, before the Spurs became the team to give him a chance.
Since Paul never played an NBA regular-season game before the start of 2017-18, it was his rookie season. Like Derrick White, though, head coach Gregg Popovich did not give this first-year player much court time.