The 2018 NBA Draft took place Thursday night at Barclays Center. If you need to catch up or check out what you might have missed, scroll through the BSO website for all our coverage. Last night was all about the celebration for the young men who realized their dreams of being drafted into the NBA. For many, that dream did not come true, but there’s still hope and Budweiser debuted a commercial to remind us all, NBA dreams don’t end with the draft.
New York Knicks cult-hero, and legend John Starks is the subject of the Budweiser “Undrafted” commercial. If you were a basketball fan in the 90s, no doubt you remember the brash-talking, fearless, shooting guard who had to battle every some of the best in the business, seemingly every playoff series.
Starks was undrafted out of Oklahoma State in 1988 and played a couple years in the CBA and WBL before the Knicks took a chance on him. Starks become a staple of those 90s Knicks and scoring over 10,000 points in his NBA career, including a now legendary dunk in a game against the Chicago Bulls over some guy named Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Starks made an All-NBA defensive team, was an all-star and won sixth man of the year. Not bad for an undrafted guy.
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