The NBA has been producing some of the best athletes in the whole world ever since. However, most of these basketball players are often overlooked even though they’ve posed excellent gameplays that made their team win important matches, even championships.
These underrated NBA players do their job well. One may even say that these types of athletes are as hardworking as the superstars in the league. These players are underappreciated because of one reason: they have a quiet demeanor.
Since NBA is broadcasted internationally, the audience would just take notice of the flashiest players or those who have strong personalities inside the court; leaving these athletes with subdued behavior go unheeded.
One more thing is, these underrated NBA players just don’t care if they’re hiding behind the shadows of a superstar teammate. All that matters is for them to win, and hopefully, bag the championship trophy for their team.
In this article, we’ll be taking some time to acknowledge the greatness of these NBA players. Because of them, the league’s depth is increasing each day and that’s what makes the game interesting.
There are hundreds of underrated NBA players from then til now but these three current jocks deserve an ultimate praise from the league’s fans because of how they’ve handled the game pressure without any drama. Truly, these players are some sort of a realization that most of the time, one may succeed without all the flair.
3. Nikola Vucevic
This big man has been a double-double machine for most of his one decade NBA career. In his current Chicago Bulls stint, Vucevic is a consistent shooter and rebounder. He’s also a hardworker and would really drag any opponent in the paint area.
Vucevic doesn’t get the appreciation he deserves in this modern era of basketball TV. Garish showmanship is the key to having lots of fans root for you. And since this unassuming center is not really into showing his aerial prowess unlike the other centers, Vucevic remains obscure to many.
2. Mikal Bridges
This promising young forward is often overlooked just because there are a lot of flashy young guns that have already established their names in the league. Bridges had a superb 2020-2021 campaign with the Phoenix Suns, helping the team’s superstars Chris Paul and Devin Booker in his first ever finals appearance against the Milwaukee Bucks.
A steady three-point shooter and defense player, Bridges is considered a great steal in the 2018 NBA Rookie Draft. With consistent gameplay, give it a few more years, Bridges will be considered as a legit superstar. But now, he’ll just be playing alongside the ‘trusted ones.’
1. Clint Capela
If you’re teammates with the ever-prolific James Harden, no matter how skillful you are, you’ll just be considered his sidekick. And this is what happened to Capela’s notoriety during his Houston Rockets stint. If one is a hardcore NBA fan and have watched the Rockets’ Harden era, you’ll see how Capela enforced the team to great successes.
Being one of the best defensive players in the league now, Capela knows how to utilize his size. He may not be as brazen and loud as the other famous NBA centers, but he sure knows how to place himself in each gameplay.
And now that he’s in the company of another flashy team, Atlanta Hawks, he’ll remain under the radar even though he continues to play in a stellar manner.
Oftentimes, sports fans just care about the big names in the league. With this, we are losing touch of the other aspect of the industry:appreciation. There are a lot of things that are happening inside the court which we aren’t aware of because some great athletes choose to care less about how amazing they are.
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