Julian Champagnie is latest sharpshooter unearthed by Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs' top four players were all top 5 picks in the NBA draft. In Game 1 of the Finals, they got a huge contribution from a player who wasn't even drafted.

Julian Champagnie scored 16 points and made five three-pointers, a bright spot in the Spurs' 105-95 win loss to the New York Knicks. He's the latest in a long line of unheralded wing players who became knockdown shooters and valuable playoff pieces for San Antonio.

San Antonio Spurs have a knack for finding three-and-D players

Throughout their history, the Spurs always seem to find disregarded wing players who play tough defense and knock down big shots in the playoffs. Often these players don't necessarily have a history of shooting well before reaching the promised land of San Antonio.

First it was Bruce Bowen, who went undrafted out of college and didn't make it to the NBA until he was 26 years old. After he joined the Spurs at age 30, Bowen made seven All-Defensive teams and shot 43.8 percent on three-pointers in the playoffs as the Spurs won three titles. Before joining the Spurs, he was a career 34.9 percent shooter from deep.

When the Spurs went to the NBA Finals in 2013, they got a Finals-record 23 three-pointers out of Danny Green, a second-round pick waived after one season,. Green had to play in the G League and overseas in Slovenia before becoming the Spurs starting guard, where he shot 103-for-215 on threes (47.9 percent) during the team's back-to-back Finals runs.

Champagnie wasn't drafted, played two games for the Philadelphia 76ers and made it through the G League to the Spurs, where he set a franchise record by making 195 threes this season.