7 things know about new Sixers guard James Young

Age: 22

Years Pro: 3

Height: 6-7

Weight: 239

Wingspan: 7-feet

Young played at Kentucky for one season in 2013-14 before departing early for the NBA Draft. He played on a talented John Calipari-coached Wildcats team with Julius Randle, Willie Cauley-Stein and former Sixer Alex Poythress that made it all the way to the National Championship before losing to Connecticut.

Young averaged 14.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.1 three-pointers per game while shooting 40.7 percent from the field and 34.9 percent on threes.

He scored 20 points in the title game and famously had one of the best dunks (above) in college basketball that season against UConn.

Young, just 18 when he was drafted, was selected with the 17th overall pick in the 2014 draft by the Boston Celtics. At least one person was very excited.

The 2014 draft was also the one where the Sixers drafted a young Kansas center named Joel Embiid and traded No. 10 draft pick Elfrid Payton to the Orlando Magic for the rights to a Croatian named Dario Saric.

At the time, DraftExpress had this to say about Young:

"Looking ahead, Young’s impressive skill and extreme youth should help him continue to grow into a capable perimeter scorer, but he’ll need to shore up his shot selection to improve his efficiency and may experience some growing pains if he isn’t able to make some adjustments early on."

Over the course of Young’s rookie season, the Celtics employed the following wing players: Jeff Green, Avery Bradley, Evan Turner, Jae Crowder, Tayshaun Prince, Marcus Thornton, Luigi Datome and Gerald Wallace.

Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t much playing time available, so Young only spent 31 games and played 10.7 minutes per as he shuttled between the NBA and Boston’s G League team, the Maine Redclaws.

He only played 6.9 minutes per game in his second year, and had to fight for Boston’s final roster spot with R.J. Hunter in his third season. He won that battle, but still only played 7.6 minutes per game in Boston.

Young’s shooting stats -- and confidence -- suffered as a result.

“That was more of a confidence thing, not getting as much minutes as I thought I was” going to, Young said. “That was throwing me off. And then I was just getting in my head instead of playing the game of basketball which I’ve been doing my whole life. That’s what it was.”

He finished his career in Boston with a 2.3 points in 8.4 minute per game average with a 27.6 three-point percentage. He has only scored 10 or more points four times in 89 NBA games.

The Celtics didn’t pick up his team option this past off-season, and nobody picked him up in free agency.