Omar Samhan, Jeremy Lin, Rashad McCants, and the Fragility of NBA Chances

All it takes is one NBA team thinking a player is NBA-caliber for him to become an NBA player. (This is how Landry Fields and Ryan Reid have come to be NBA players.) But for Omar Samhan and Jeremy Lin, that chance is yet to come, and for Rashad McCants, time may be running out. Even one team taking a look is still rare.Samhan might be the most likely one to stick in the league. He's still tall, still an adept and studious big man, still a joy to be around.He's also savvy enough to realize he's on the cusp of being an NBA player, and confident enough to keep trying. Perhaps he won't catch on with the Mavericks, who brought him to Summer League despite a frontcourt packed with veterans. But if he can slim down further and add a bit of quickness to his deft post game, he'll find a taker. Probably.Lin should catch on, too. There aren't many perimeter players who combine his quickness, passing, and midrange game, and if hanging with John Wall isn't an en...