Invited Quote by Louis Gossett, Jr

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

— Julius Erving

I wasn't drafted. I was just playing really good basketball, enjoying playing basketball with my national team and never really thought: 'I have to…

— Jose Calderon

I feel like the Knicks drafted me because they knew what I could do.

— RJ Barrett

I had friends around campus and great teammates. I didn't want to leave. I didn't expect to be regarded and scouted as such a…

— Chris Bosh

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot…

— Nick Ferguson

My senior year in high school I knew was going to be drafted into the NBA.

— Derrick Favors

My rookie year, Byron Scott didn't really want to sign me. In New Jersey, the New Jersey Nets. I got there, and Byron Scott…

— Stephen Jackson

I just wanted to be drafted by whoever wanted me and wherever I had an opportunity to go and be successful.

— Mark Ingram II

I went undrafted, played summer league with the Heat. I got to training camp three weeks straight and I didn't make a shot, whether…

— Duncan Robinson

Obviously, getting drafted into the NBA is an amazing feeling. So I was happy regardless of who drafted me.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had…

— Adam Oates

I came out throughout the whole summer after I was drafted and worked extremely hard.

— Jerami Grant