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10 NBA players approaching their last chance in 2017-18

By Gerald Bourguet

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9. Mario Chalmers

The Cleveland Cavaliers needed a backup point guard for almost all of last season, and despite LeBron James‘ very public lamentations over that fact, his former Miami Heat teammate Mario Chalmers never got signed.

That wasn’t a great sign for a player coming off an Achilles injury, especially since he was ready to return in November. On a one-year, minimum contract with the Memphis Grizzlies, at least Rio will get his chance to salvage his NBA career on a team he’s familiar with.

Chalmers averaged 10.8 points and 3.8 assists in 22.8 minutes per game over 55 appearances down on Beale Street in 2015-16. However, if he can’t stay healthy or definitively establish himself as a superior option to Wade Baldwin as backup point guard, the 31-year-old veteran could find himself struggling to find work in the near future.