Travers is twenty years old and instead of coming to the United States to play college basketball, Travers stayed home to turn pro in the Australian professional league, where he has played three seasons for the Perth Wildcats.
Travers has seen his playing time increase every season but playing against grown men and long-time professionals has been an adjustment.
Last season Travers averaged seven points, five rebounds, and two assists in twenty-two minutes per game for Perth but I've seen some websites list him as a forward, others as a guard and he shot only forty-one percent and just twenty-five percent from three-point distance, so Travers appears to be very raw and perhaps will turn out to be a tweener that isn't big enough to play power forward or a solid enough shooter to play a pure wing position.
Still, he's only twenty and could develop into an NBA player but I think the odds are against him at this point, Travers is most likely to wind up as a solid national player that may never reach the Cavaliers training camp but considering the roster situation and the point in the draft, Travers was acceptable as a pick to hold his rights and may be one of those names that see their rights move from team to team in order to make trades work.
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