NBA: 10 relative unknowns entering defining seasons in 2019-20

10. Ryan Arcidiacono, Chicago Bulls

The most important year of any NBA player’s career is Year 3, where they’ve shown as a rookie what they have for raw talent and as a sophomore how much capacity they have to grow that talent into a quality NBA career.

The third year is when good players can put themselves on teams’ radar for that all-important haul when they finally hit free agency.

Or, in the case of Ryan Arcidiacono and other second-round picks or undrafted free agents who got waived by their original teams, it’s a chance to prove they belong in the big leagues.

The Kris Dunn experiment with the Chicago Bulls looks like a failure and Arcidiacono started 32 of the 81 games he played in last season, posting 10.0 points and 4.9 assists per 36 minutes.

He also shot 44.7 percent from the field and 37.3 percent on 3-pointers, good for an excellent .544 effective field goal percentage as he took more than half of his shots from long range.

He also raised his win shares per 48 minutes to .090, which is outstanding on a team that won just 22 games.

Arcidiacono’s ceiling is Malcolm Brogdon, who played a similar role in Milwaukee as the Bucks’ safety valve shooter behind Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton; Lauri Markkanen and Zach LaVine are the guys the Bulls will be featuring in their offense.

If he plays his cards right, Arcidiacono might even have casual fans pronouncing his name right.