Damien Wilkins

Wilkins is perhaps the best player of the bunch, a decent NBA player as recently as last year. Playing for the Timberwolves - the team who initially signed him to that 5 year contract back in the McHale era - Wilkins averaged 5.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 20 minutes per game, playing on a bad team insistent upon a lot of triangle offense with a load of players who didn't know how to run it. Nothing about those numbers is stand-outy, nor does Wilkins shine in any facet of the game when given the eye test. But he's solid. Wilkins does absolutely nothing attractively, not being a great athlete, not being a great ball handler, not being a good shooter, and prone to mistakes. But he's good at most things, is versatile both defensively and offensively, and does just enough. (He even scored 40 points once. A bit of a fluke, yet fun nonetheless.) He's never advanced beyond being an ordinary NBA player, and he never will do, but that's enough. There will be about 70 players in the NBA next year that are worse than that. There always are.