NBA scouts grade potential draft prospects based on a range of basketball skills, but also in a few off-the-court categories, such as intelligence, maturity and willingness to be coached. Based on that criteria, then-Penn State University point guard Tim Frazier measured off the charts in 2014. Not only was Frazier a three-time selection to the Big Ten’s All-Academic team with the Nittany Lions, he also earned the conference’s Sportsmanship Award as a senior.
Unfortunately for the 6-foot-1, 170-pound point guard, he still went undrafted two years ago, the start of what’s been an eventful path to finally getting a chance this month to play significant minutes in the NBA.