Quinn Cook was a four-star recruit coming out of high school, a three-year starter at Duke and the second-leading scorer on the Blue Devils team that won the national title in 2015.Q
But Cook went undrafted in 2015 and couldn't latch on in the NBA until the fall of 2017 when he signed a two-way contract with the Warriors. Six months later, he earned a multi-year contract with Golden State.
That June, Cook helped the Warriors win an NBA championship alongside his childhood friend Kevin Durant. Life was good. He played in 74 games for Golden State during the 2018-19 season and as a free agent that summer, signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and won a second ring with them in the bubble in Orlando, Fla.
Cook managed to play 23 games between the Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers last season, but he wasn't able to find an NBA home during the 2021-22 season.
The Warriors worked out Cook in September but went in a different direction. He went to training camp with the Portland Trail Blazers but they released him during the preseason. He spent two months playing in Russia before being released. He signed with the Stockton Kings in the G League in February, but he's still waiting for an NBA team to call.