 for the rest of my life for insisting that he had to be drafted. Because, believe it or not, there have actually been a lot of pretty darn good players in the NBA who were never drafted. You've heard of J.J. Barea? Yes, you have. John Starks, Bruce Bowen, Udonis Haslam, the legendary Connie Hawkins. Now, we're going back into the cookie jar, but he's a Hall of Famer, five-time All-Star, one of the guys who came over from the ABA.