Gary Clark Deserves a Shot in the NBA

Evaluating NBA Draft prospects is difficult. Sometimes players who were dominant in college don’t translate to the next level or at least player evaluators don’t expect that they will. That’s why you can find yourself in a situation where the player of the year in one conference is considered a fringe prospect while other guys in the league are more or less guaranteed a shot. Unfortunately, that’s the case with Gary Clark.

Clark had a majestic career at UC and he capped it off with an American Athletic Conference Player of the Year award this past spring. However, fellow AACers like Landry Shamet, Melvin Frazier and even teammate Jacob Evans are being given more of a chance at getting their…