Phoenix Suns’ Archie Goodwin will give ‘hell’ to teams that passed on him
By Jason Marcum
Phoenix Suns rookie shooting guard Archie Goodwin declared for the 2013 NBA Draft after just one season at the University of Kentucky thinking he was one of the best players to enter this year’s weakened crop of prospects. But he had to sit back and watch 28 teams bypass him in favor of players they believed to be better prospects than Goodwin.
The Suns made a draft night deal to move up and grab Goodwin with the 29th overall pick, and now, he has a message to those who didn’t think he was worth drafting:
"“It would have been great to have been drafted where I thought I should have been,” Goodwin told SLAM during last week’s Panini photo shoot portion of the Rookie Transition Program. “Now every team that didn’t pick me, I’ve got to give them hell.”"
He’s already off to a good start after he turned a lot of heads in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, where he averaged 13.1 points per game and 3.3 rebounds per game.