Cedric Coward was never going to be your average rookie.
Drafted No. 11 overall at 21 years old, Coward’s path to the NBA was anything but conventional. There were no USA Basketball camps, no high profile AAU circuits, no McDonald’s All American games. Instead, his journey ran through Division III Willamette University, then Eastern Washington in the Big Sky, before a short six game stint at Washington State that was cut short by injury.
That unconventional background has not slowed his introduction to the league. If anything, it has accelerated it.
Rather than being eased in, Coward has been thrown straight into the deep end by Memphis, starting games and taking on
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