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The 2020 NBA Draft will be held on 18 November 2020. An NBA Draft is a special moment for the players, and the teams want to find the right talent for their roster.
However, sometimes the right player for a team might go undrafted and eventually find his way to the NBA by signing as a free agent. Here, we will rank the best undrafted players in the NBA at the moment.
NBA Draft - Top 5 undrafted players in the league right now
Ben Wallace and John Starks are two of the most popular undrafted players in NBA history (Wallace in the 1996 NBA Draft and Starks in the 1988 NBA Draft). Big Ben went on to win four NBA 'Defensive Player of the Year' Awards and participated in four All-Star games.
The list will consider the undrafted player's current performance rather than their career stats
#5 Duncan Robinson - Undrafted in the 2018 NBA Draft
Miami Heat signed Duncan Robinson on 10 July 2018, less than a month after the shooting guard had gone undrafted in the 2018 NBA Draft.
Being a college senior did not help Robinson's NBA Draft stock.
After playing at Division III for Williams College, Robinson played for Michigan.
In three years with the Wolverines, Robinson shot 46% from the field, 42% from three, and 86% from the FT line.
After securing a regular contract from the Heat in April 2019, Robinson's career was established, and he played for 68 games with Miami during the 2019-20 NBA season.
He averaged 14 points per game in the 2019-20 season while having 47/45/93 shooting splits. Robinson hit 270 threes in the season, establishing a new single-season record for Miami.
The shooting guard helped the Heat reach the 2020 NBA Finals after averaging 12 points per game in the playoffs. After scoring 7 threes in game five of the 2020 NBA Finals, Robinson became the 10th player to reach that number in an NBA Finals game.
#4 Robert Covington - Undrafted in the 2013 NBA Draft
After four years at Tennessee State averaging 15 points and seven rebounds per game, Robert Covington went undrafted in the 2013 NBA Draft.
The Houston Rockets signed Covington to a two-year contract, a couple of weeks after the NBA Draft. However, he only played seven games in the 2013-14 NBA season and was dismissed by Houston on 27 October 2014.
Less than a month later, the Philadelphia 76ers added Covington to their 'process,' and he rapidly became a starter for them.
In 70 games (49 starts) for the Sixers in the 2014-15 NBA season, he averaged 14 points and five rebounds per game while shooting 37% from the three-point line.
Covington has played 396 NBA games and was nominated to the All-Defensive teams of the 2017-18 NBA season, without being an NBA Draft pick.
In the 2019-20 campaign, he averaged 12.4 points and seven rebounds per game for the Minnesota Timberwolves (48 games) and the Houston Rockets (22).
#3 Seth Curry - Undrafted in the 2013 NBA Draft
Seth Curry's path to the NBA was long and extremely hard. After playing four years at college (one for Liberty and three for Duke), Steph's brother went undrafted in the 2013 NBA Draft.
After bouncing around in the then-named NBA Development League, Curry played two games in the 2013-14 season, two in the 2014-15 season for the Memphis Grizzlies, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Phoenix Suns.
Curry averaged 22 points, five assists, and four rebounds per game on 46/42/90 shooting splits across 81 games in two seasons of the D-League (now G-League), for the Santa Cruz Warriors and the Erie BayHawks.
Curry then found his big NBA break with the Sacramento Kings and played 44 games in the 2015-16 NBA season. He shot 45% from three in the 2015-16 season and signed with the Dallas Mavericks for the following campaign.
Curry averaged 13 points per game in 70 appearances with Dallas on 43% from the three-point line. A tibia injury forced him to miss the entire 2017-18 season, Curry returned the following year to play with the Portland Trail Blazers and helped them reach the Western Conference Finals in the 2019 NBA Playoffs.
He returned to Dallas last year and averaged 12 points per game after shooting 45% from three.
#2 Wesley Matthews - Undrafted in the 2009 NBA Draft
For a senior (four years at Marquette) who went undrafted in the NBA Draft, Wesley Matthews has had a solid NBA career.
The Utah Jazz picked up Matthews for the 2009-10 NBA season and gave him his first shot at the NBA. Right from the start, Matthews played at a good level and averaged nine points per game.
Then, he spent five years at Portland, averaging 15 points on 39% shooting from the three-point-line. His 3-and-D abilities are highly regarded in this era, and he has maintained his level in his 11-year NBA career.
Matthews played for the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2019-20 season and helped them reach the first seed in the Eastern Conference Finals and gain NBA's best regular-season record.
Even though his numbers are not the same from earlier in his career, his defensive game and three-point shooting skills remain efficient.
Three shooting guards selected in the 2009 NBA Draft did not play a single NBA game.
#1 Fred Vanvleet - Undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft
Fred VanVleet went undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft after four good seasons at Wichita State. He was 22-years-old at the time.
VanVleet later signed with the Toronto Raptors after participating in the NBA Summer League with the team.
He played just eight minutes per game in his first year (37 games) and averaged three points per game. In the 2017-18 NBA season, VanVleet played 76 games and shot 41% from the three-point line, which helped him average nine points per game.
During the Raptors' 2019 NBA championship run, VanVleet played a huge role. After averaging 11 points per game in the regular season across 64 games (28 starts), he averaged 14 points per game in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors. He even earned an NBA Finals MVP consideration.
As a full-time starter, VanVleet averaged 17.6 points and seven assists per game on 54 starts in the 2019-20 NBA season.
In the 2016 NBA Draft, four point guards were selected and eventually did not play a single NBA game.
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