This isn’t to suggest that Comanche, Simmons or Trier won’t someday be productive (and wealthy) NBA players, although none have been as much as All-Pac-12 players.
By comparison, All-Pac-12 standouts selected in the second round such as Washington’s Jon Brockman, USC’s Gabe Pruitt and UCLA’s Honeycutt never played more than two full NBA seasons. Pruitt is out of basketball. Honeycutt is in Turkey and Brockman Germany.
The second round of the NBA draft is mostly fool’s gold. In the last 10 years, only 18 of the 300 selected averaged more than 24 minutes per game. Sometimes a Draymond Green, No. 35 in 2012, and a DeAndre Jordan, No. 35 in 2008, beat the odds.
Or put it this way: in the last 25 years, Arizona has had 16 second-round draftees. Only three stuck for more than brief part-time gigs: Gilbert Arenas, Luke Walton and Budinger.
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Only Arenas was a full-time starter.
Gentlemen, proceed at your own risk.
