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YouTube Gold: The Greatness Of Mark Price

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People should have understood when he was at Georgia Tech: Mark Price was a phenomenal talent.

He was not well known coming out of high school in Enid, Oklahoma but quickly established himself as a superb player at Georgia Tech. But he was just 5-11 and there's not a big market for 5-11 white point guards in the NBA.

So he was drafted in the second round by Dallas and immediately traded to Cleveland. People thought he was too slow to be an NBA player, which was mystifying to us. He never looked slow.

There is one play he made against Duke when he was with the Yellow Jackets that really underscores his gifts: Johnny Dawkins drove down the left side of the lane and ultimately sort of cut to the basket at an angle.