Low risk, high reward moves are the exact type of decisions that front offices crave making in the NBA. When the Indiana Pacers signed CJ Wilcox, they checked both of those boxes.
Because Wilcox was signed to a two-way contract, there is little to no real cost or opportunity cost. He can be waived at any time with a minimal penalty and he counts for $0 against the salary cap. That’s basically as low of a risk as a signing can be.
Meanwhile, Wilcox was draft in the first round of the 2014 draft for a reason.