Catching up with Dajuan Wagner

It's incredibly easy to write something as trite as "before LeBron James, there was Dajuan Wagner," but, well, before LeBron James? There was Dajuan Wagner. (And before Dajuan Wagner, there was JaRon Rush, but let's not get into that right now.) Back in the summer of 2000, Wags was the biggest thing going, a bundle of energy combo guard that was highest-rated prospect on what back then was thought to be a legendary high school senior class that included Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, and Ousmane Cisse. Wagner, the son of former Lakers guard Milt Wagner, averaged over 42 points per game in his senior year for New Jersey's Camden High School, once managing 100 points in a single game. Though Curry, Chandler, and Cisse all skipped college to enter the prep-heavy 2001 draft, Wagner went to Memphis for a single season, working the one-and-done route before being selected sixth overall in the 2002 draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, three spots ahead of Amar'e Stoudem...