Kendrick “The Best And Most Famous Kendrick Of All Time” Nunn helped put the Bulls away early in this one, scoring 10 of the Heat’s first 15 points while the Bulls scored none. It was his way of showing the good people of Chicago (where he grew up) what they were missing out on. Since he didn’t get drafted, any team could’ve picked him up for free, including the Bulls.
I don’t blame any team for not nabbing him, though. There’s a LOT of undrafted free agents out there to sift through. I mean a LOT. A serious butt-load. I’m an undrafted free agent. You’re an undrafted free agent (assuming you’ve reached the age where the NBA can use you). Your mom is definitely an undrafted free agent if you aren’t. The dude who sometimes shows up to the park who can almost dunk is an undrafted free agent. How are scouts supposed to keep up with that? Even if they pare it down to “only people who played basketball in high school”, that’s a lot of prospects to keep track of.
So it makes sense that Nunn may have slipped through the cracks a little bit. But those cracks he slipped through took him right to Miami, and now he’s one of the best rookies this year, so all’s well that ends well. I don’t even know what that idiom means, but now seemed like a good time to trot it out. Sorry, non-English speakers who are possibly using Google translate to figure out what I’m writing; that phrase probably didn’t make any sense at all to you.