For any aspiring NBA player, there are two factors that are likely to determine their success: talent, and work ethic. 

OK, fine. Luck plays a role as well. For any aspiring NBA player, there are two factors that are likely to determine their success that they have any control over. 

Many would suggest that talent is the most important attribute. They’re probably correct. If it was possible to simply work your way into the NBA, the author of this piece wouldn’t be writing it – someone would be writing about him. 

Cam Reddish of the New York Knicks is immensely talented. So much so, in fact, that he was once the number one high school basketball player in America.

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Unfortunately, he’s failed to match those expectations at the NBA level. Does he work hard enough? 

It’s hard to say, but we know Josh Green and Frank Ntilkina do. Could the Knicks move the more talented Reddish for a pair of scrappy role players this summer?