Perhaps being booted from two teams in two years and admitting to a substance abuse problem scarred NBA teams away from Robert Upshaw, who wasn’t among the 60 players taken in Thursday’s NBA draft.
Or maybe a heart condition that was detected at last month’s NBA combine had something to do with the 7-foot shot-blocking phenom going undrafted despite many draft analysts projecting him as a second-round pick.
Whatever the reason, the former record-breaking Washington Huskies center didn’t do enough to tempt one of the 30 NBA teams to use a draft pick on him. The 21-year-old redshirt sophomore was one of two notable Pac-12 underclassmen players who was not taken, including Arizona junior forward Brandon Ashley.