It's time to name our seventh annual Luke Walton All-Stars -- role players and journeymen thriving in unexpected ways. (Click here for more on the column's origin.)
Starters
In Detroit and Chicago, Dinwiddie developed a potentially career-killing reputation as a yappy know-it-all. "I learned when you're a second-rounder, you're not allowed to be vocal," Dinwiddie says. "It was taboo in Detroit."
The Nets discovered he deserved the rap. "It wasn't great at first," says Kenny Atkinson, the team's coach. "It was, 'Oh, this guy has all the answers.'"
Dinwiddie didn't expect to play much with Jeremy Lin and D'Angelo Russell ahead of him.