Dalton Knecht’s NBA dreams should have been over when he didn’t land a scholarship to his dream school, Colorado, coming out of high school in suburban Denver. He was forced to play JUCO ball the next two years, which eventually led to an opportunity at tiny Northern Colorado. Knecht failed to land a starting spot in his first year with the Bears. In his second, the team finished only 12-20 with Knecht as their leading man.
There aren’t many NBA stories that begin in junior college and include a stop in the Big Sky Conference, but then again there aren’t many basketball journeys as incredible as Knecht’s. As he
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