In 2001, the diminutive Tyronn Lue was a rarely used, backup point guard out of Nebraska who had amassed just 802 minutes of NBA court time in his first three regular seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Lue continued to be a nobody through the first three rounds of the playoffs, in which he averaged just 5.8 minutes of action over 10 games.
The Lakers would win all those games, sweeping Portland, Sacramento, and San Antonio. In the Finals, the Allen Iverson-led Philadelphia 76ers awaited.
And just like that, everything changed.
Not having a defensive answer for Iverson, the league's scoring champ, Phil Jackson looked down to the end of his bench and pointed at Lue. The nobody would quickly become a somebody, applying seriously annoying defense on Iverson while averaging just under 1 ...
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