Like many in his shoes, Jason Kapono could be publicly bitter about being a second-round draft pick.

Like many in his shoes, he followed the classic example of how to become an NBA first-rounder. He went to the right school, honed the right skills, won the right awards, stayed four years.

And like many, he became a victim of sorts to the overexposure of the talented teen-agers, the globalization of the sport, and being labeled a one-trick pony.

At a school renowned for its basketball history, UCLA, Kapono accomplished a laundry lists of firsts: first to ever be named Pac-10 first team four times, first to lead the school in scoring four times, first to win the John Wooden Award (for being team MVP) four consecutive years.

Yet on draft night, it was second, as a second round, for Kapono, 31st overall to the Cavaliers. He was still available, because many NBA scouts portrayed him as simply a shooter.

Not that Kapono is simple. He's got an NBA body (6-foot-7, 213 pounds) and was one of the top 3-point gunners in college basketball during his career, shooting 45 percent.