How unlikely is Khris Middleton as a Mavericks target?

Khris Middleton has come a long way in a fairly short time. I got to watch his freshman year at Texas A&M first hand, and while I could tell he was a talent, I never really thought of him as a guy who would make it in the NBA. Over his three years in college, he transitioned from co-star to face of the team, but his stats were never eye-popping.

I honesty figured he would end up like Acie Law and Donald Sloan, the two other most recent Aggie guards to get drafted into the NBA. Law was drafted in the first round while Sloan went undrafted, but both managed to float around as the third or fourth guard on several NBA rosters. Law plays in Europe now, and while Sloan seems to have found a small…