Bobcats' draftee ready for tough NBA road

(By Mike Cranston, Associated Press) Derrick Brown doubted himself when he was a gangly, too-thin freshman at Xavier.After being ignored until late in the NBA draft, the Charlotte Bobcats' second-round pick began a similar, non-guaranteed road to professional basketball Monday in the Orlando summer league.Brown is still skinny, but this time full of confidence."I want to prove to a lot of people, two or three years down the line when they look at this draft, that they got a real good player that a lot of teams missed out on," Brown said. "I'm not mad or anything like that. I'm just ready to get this thing going."Brown has begun the process. With the Bobcats not fielding a summer league team to save money, Brown is a member of Utah's entry in Orlando this week. The Jazz were to play their first game Monday night.While many mock drafts had the 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward a late first-round pick, Brown had to wait late into the night on June 25 at hi...