Kelkin Bryves was a losing draft in 2019, and he was lucky enough to officially enter the NBA with a contract from the Blazers, where he made 17 appearances last season, averaging just 0.7 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game, and shooting only 25 percent from the field.
This kind of player with low scoring and low shooting percentage was basically abandoned by the team at the end of the season, but the Blazers renewed his contract for another year on September 26 this year, although it was only a two-way contract, but it also gave Blevins the opportunity to stay in the NBA. It is worth mentioning that Bravins is the cousin of Trail Blazers star Lillard. Lillard has been in trouble for the past year, and the signing of the Blazers with his cousin is obviously a matter of human affection - the cousin has a good relationship with Lillard, and often helps Lillard with children, leaving him to stabilize Lillard, he can stay in the NBA not by strength, but by Lillard's relationship. In fact, there are many relationships like Blevins in the NBA, let's take stock together:
Chris Smith
Chris Smith, a 1.88-meter-tall guard, ran in the 2012 NBA draft but lost. He later participated in the NBA Development League draft, but also failed, which shows that his basketball level is really poor, but he got a contract with the Knicks on August 2, 2012, because he was JR Smith's younger brother, jr. was playing for the Knicks at the time.
The Knicks took a set makeup photo for the brothers, JR was very impressed, and the new season was also full of motivation, averaging 18.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, two career-highs. However, his younger brother is really good, only played in 2 games, got 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals and 0 blocks, such a player can get an NBA contract in itself is a very outrageous thing, and finally he was cut by the Knicks in 2014.
Mitchell Thompson
Mitchell Thompson, the older brother of Warriors star Klay Thompson and the eldest son of NBA 1978 champion and two-time NBA champion Michael Thompson, is a 2.01-meter-tall forward swingman who is better than Clay, but his shooting ability is average, and his defense is not a level, so he lost the draft in 2011.
However, he later signed with the Cavaliers, but after playing 5 games, he did not perform well, was quickly cut by the Cavaliers, and then he represented the NBA team in the summer league many times, but did not get an NBA contract, until the 2013-2014 season, Klay has been sitting in the Warriors' starting position, but also showed the potential of top 3D, the Warriors soon recruited his brother, but he was not in a good state when training in the team, did not gain the trust of the head coach, did not get the opportunity to play, He later played for the Warriors' subordinate teams and has been playing for this day, hoping that he will one day play alongside Klay in the NBA.
Xanasis-Antetokounmpo
Xanasis is a small forward with a height of 1.98 meters, his basketball skills are very rough, his athleticism is not outstanding, only a brute force, and the draft market is not good. He entered the NBA draft in 2014 and was selected by the Bucks with the 21st pick in the second round, and has been playing in the NBA for two years now.
In the past two years, he has played a total of 77 games. Averaging 7.6 minutes per game, averaging 2.7 points and 1.4 rebounds per game, the performance was very dismal, but this summer he got a formal contract for 2 years and 3.61 million US dollars, only because he was the brother of the alphabet brother, and the Bucks selected him because of the relationship between the alphabet brother, otherwise such a player is likely to lose, and it is impossible to get a full guarantee contract with an average of 2.7 points and 1.4 rebounds per game, with an annual salary of more than one million, if it were not for the alphabet brother, he could get a short contract, or a two-way contract is not bad.
David Stockton
Listen to the name to know that he is the son of John Stockton, John Stockton's physical talent is also very average, but with a super high ball quotient to become an NBA superstar, but David Stockton inherited his ordinary physical talent, nor did he inherit his super high basketball IQ, it is difficult to get a foothold in the NBA.
In 2014, David ran into the NBA draft but failed, and then played the Summer League for the Wizards, but was not officially contracted for poor performance. Later, he signed a short 10-day contract with the Kings, but failed to stay in the NBA due to poor performance. Two years later, the Jazz threw an olive branch at David in john Stockton's face, letting him play 3 games with the team, but he did not perform as expected, was cut shortly after, and now can only play in some lower leagues overseas to make a living.
In addition to the above, the NBA also has many related households, such as Stephen Curry's brother Seth Curry, Curry's brother-in-law Damian Lee, Doug Rivers' son Austin Rivers, etc., but unlike the above, they later established themselves in the NBA by strength and got rid of the identity of the relationship household.