Bruised Egos: Ethan Happ Among Four All-Americans Shunned in NBA Draft

All-Americans Chris Clemons (Campbell), Mike Daum (South Dakota State), Ethan Happ (Wisconsin) and Dedric Lawson (Kansas) weren't among the chosen few in this year's NBA draft. Of course, the NBA is a difficult nut to crack. Although Happ was an NCAA consensus second-team All-American, there was no guarantee he would be selected this year; primarily because of the continued emphasis on international players. Thus they took a crash-to-earth course at the school of hard knocks along with the following undrafted undergrads: Tyus Battle (Syracuse), Ky Bowman (Boston College), Oshae Brissett (Syracuse), Armoni Brooks (Houston), Amir Coffey (Minnesota), Tyler Cook (Iowa), Corey Davis (Houston), Aubrey Dawkins (UCF), Luguentz Dort (Arizona State), Jared Harper (Auburn), Louis King (Oregon), V.J. King (Louisville), Charles Matthews (Michigan), Zach Norvell Jr. (Gonzaga), Shamorie Ponds (St. John's), Jontay Porter (Missouri), Brandon Randolph (Arizona), Naz Reid (Louisiana State), Simi Shittu (Vanderbilt), Justin Simon (St. John's), Nick Ward (Michigan State), Lindell Wigginton (Iowa State), Kris Wilkes (UCLA) and Kenny Wooten (Oregon).

With or without a college diploma in tow, were these misguided hoopers thinking with same adeptness as embarrassment-to-village-idiots Jussie Smollett? Were they as delusional as compromised Congressman Adam "Shifty" Schiff exhibiting his impeachment expertise getting punked by Russian prankster? Denied sneaker honorariums during an FBI probe, undrafted scholars may be swayed to join lunatic leftist leeches seeking reparations from NBA "owners" or boycotting "one-percenter" NBA foreigners stealing their jobs. Amid truly smelly progressive puke convulsing after Justice Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court essentially so bloodthirsty Planned Murderhood continue to butcher innocent babies in womb, it could blossom into one of those get in line behind the other kneeling mindless "diverse" robot routines and stand by for further "Strzok-out" instruction.

Happ became the 13th NCAA consensus All-American to go undrafted in a 10-season span and fifth two-time A-A in this category. Do you need any more evidence that the quality of play at the collegiate level has diminished in recent years? The NBA draft was reduced to seven rounds in 1985, three rounds in 1988 and to its present two rounds in 1989. Centers Bill Spivey of Kentucky and Sherman White of LIU, All-Americans in the early 1950s, went undrafted by the NBA allegedly because of possible repercussions stemming from a game-fixing scandal. A total of 39 All-Americans, five in 2011, have gone undrafted by the NBA thus far in the 21st Century.

Nine years ago, Sherron Collins (Kansas) and Scottie Reynolds (Villanova) became the initial NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans not to be selected in the NBA draft. They're not a motley crew, but following is an alphabetical list of All-Americans who weren't selected in an NBA draft:

*NCAA consensus first-team All-American.
**NCAA consensus second-team All-American.
NOTE: Bell, Booker, Collins, Ferrell, Hansbrough, Haslem, Jennings, Jones, Kilpatrick, Lucas, McNeal, Motley, Ray, Sanchez, Smith, Uthoff, VanVleet and Wiltjer went on to play in the NBA after signing as free agents. Pratt played in the ABA.