Anthony Bennett was the No. 1 pick in the 2013 NBA draft picked up by the Cleveland Cavaliers and has significantly underachieved his expectations since entering the league. Despite this, he isn’t a risk at just over $1 million a year for the next two years.

Bennett is the third lowest paid player on the Nets roster. Third year guards Joe Harris and Sean Kilpatrick are the lowest each making just over $980 thousand a year. If anything, it will be exciting to see how much the Nets can get out of Bennett for so little.

Bennett’s career high in the NBA was his second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He averaged 15.7 minutes, 5.2 points and 3.8 rebounds.

Last season in Toronto Bennett only played 19 games before getting demoted to the D-League playing for Toronto’s affiliate team Raptors 905.

The Wall Street Journal names Bennett the biggest upset in a No. 1 draft pick in recent history, certainly since Greg Oden, the numbers don’t lie it is true.

Bennett most recently played with the Men’s Canadian national basketball team in an attempt to qualify for the Rio Olympics. He averaged 19 minutes per game and 6.8 points per game shooting 56 percent from the field. In the final game of the tournament against France with five and a half minutes left in the game Bennett scored a three to bring the team Canada within five points. When he’s on top of his game, he’s not only good, he’s clutch.

In 2015 during the Pan Am Games Bennett averaged 15.6 points, 10.4 rebounds per game over five games with team Canada.

Bennett’s potential is great and he is in better physical shape than he has been in the past. We know he can put up big numbers, we’ve seen him do it when he was at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Brooklyn Nets GM Sean Marks said the organization selected a few players during free agency whose “trajectory” to becoming great was evident. Marks didn’t explicitly state Bennett’s name, but everyone was thinking it.

Bennett is patient with the ball, with good size for rebounding and is a decent mid-range shooter. If he can get back to playing how he used to it would be the Nets’ best free agency deal.

Former University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) forward Anthony Bennett was the top overall pick in the NBA Draft less than a year ago. Now, Bennett has fallen hard and fast, having just been let go by his third NBA team.

Raptors Waive Former No. 1 Overall Pick Anthony Bennett

According to a report by Shams Charania of The Vertical on Monday, the Canadian forward has been waived by the Toronto Raptors to create space for veteran forward Jason Thompson.

Bennett, 22, only managed to earn 1.5 points, 1.2 rebounds and played just 4.4 minutes per game over 19 appearances this season with the Raptors.

Bennett was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2013 NBA Draft, but there he suffered a long string of injuries, conditioning issues and general ineffectiveness before he was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves as part of the Andrew Wiggins-for-Kevin Love deal.

The forward didn’t fare much better with the Timberwolves, playing in just 57 games before being bought out in late 2015.

Charania reports that the Phoenix Suns might look into Bennett after he clears waivers. However, Bennett could be seeing the last days of his NBA career soon if he ultimately can’t find that ideal scenario.

Caption: MINNEAPOLIS, MN – DECEMBER 14: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers drives towards to the basket against Anthony Bennett #24 of the Minnesota Timberwolves during the third quarter of the game on December 14, 2014 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Lakers defeated the Timberwolves 100-94.