As the frustration mounted and no clear path to a regular role on an NBA team emerged, Sandro Mamukelashvili started pondering his alternatives a couple of years ago.
The current Raptors big man had been in the NBA for about three seasons and he could not get traction and, as a late-second round draft pick on a two-way contract, teams weren’t throwing lucrative contracts at him. Franchises tend to discharge guys like him and move on to the next long-shot project. The basketball woods are littered with the career carcasses of 54th draft picks.
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