The relentless growth of jae crowder

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Online article on SI.com's Fansided:

http://fansided.com/2016/02/02/relen...h-jae-crowder/

Part of the article below:

Crowder’s emergence this season, his first full one in Boston, is the latest ironic step of a basketball journey that has struggled to find direction. Despite an NBA pedigree (his father, Corey Crowder, was a professional player both in the U.S. and overseas), he wasn’t a sought-after recruit out of high school. Lacking ideal height and built more like a bulldog than a greyhound, he spent a season with South Georgia Tech and another with Howard University before earning a scholarship with Marquette University.

With the Golden Eagles, Crowder found a way to blend raw skills with infectious determination, eventually garnering recognition as the 2012 Big East Player of the Year. But when teams evaluated prospects for that year’s NBA Draft, Crowder’s collegiate success was often overlooked. Concerns about his shooting and size offset his potential, and he was selected by Cleveland in the second round before being traded to the Mavericks.

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