And we're back:
1. Joey Buckets, 3-point champ
Joe Harris is perhaps the best story of perseverance and growth in the NBA over the past half-decade. He braced himself for a long stint in another league after he underwent foot surgery in January 2016 and the Cavaliers flipped him to Orlando; the Magic immediately waived him.
Brooklyn plucked Harris from the D-League six months later. Kenny Atkinson, the team's coach, suggested Harris watch film of Kyle Korver and installed some of Korver's pet Atlanta sets for him. Harris couldn't believe it. "I was taken aback," he told me in 2017.