The Toronto Raptors added another swingman to their growing collection. Deng Adel, undrafted out of Louisville, will be part of the group meeting in Vancouver later this month.
If you haven’t heard of this fellow, you’re not alone. Deng left college prior to his senior year, but didn’t get his name called in the draft. Since he had already hired an agent, a return to school was out of bounds. He spent the summer in Las Vegas, playing for Houston’s entry, where he compiled respectable, though hardly eye-popping, numbers.
Deng’s story is interesting. He is Sudanese-born, but escaped the endemic violence there with his family when he was very young.