Through no fault of his own, Emmanuel Mudiay‘s career hasn’t lived up to his draft stock thus far. Coming into the NBA, Mudiay had played a meager 10 games of basketball in the year prior for the Southern Tigers in China.
After being selected 7th overall in the draft by the Denver Nuggets, he was thrust straight into the starting lineup to start 68 games in his rookie season. That’s right. For no reason at all, the Nuggets thought it was a good idea to take a 19-year-old who’s played 10 games of basketball post-high school, and play him 30 minutes a night in the NBA.