SAN FRANCISCO — For a first-round draft pick, DaRon Holmes II didn’t have a prototypical path to the NBA.
He was a three-year college player in the Atlantic 10, not one of the premier men’s basketball conferences. He wasn’t always a certainty as a big-shot prospect growing up. He wasn’t always the best player on his team. In fact, he got cut from multiple AAU teams.
The sum of those experiences might make Holmes well-suited for navigating what’s next: G League basketball in what was supposed to be his second year in the NBA.