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Keith Smart, who served as the Warriors’ summer-league coach in 2009, said he uses Morrow’s story as a teaching point to this day. “Sure, people say, ‘Well, summer league doesn’t mean anything.’ Oh, no, no. It means a lot,” Smart told The Athletic by phone this week. “When a guy like Morrow gets his shots, that changes his career. At Georgia Tech, everybody knew he could shoot it, OK? But they didn’t know how he could shoot it in the pros. “I share that with a lot of kids. The message is, ‘If you don’t get drafted, you still got to do what you do here well.’ Morrow is a great example of that.”

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