NEW YORK — All of the hectic traveling didn’t pay off for C.J. Fair.

After a month of working out with half of the NBA, Fair went undrafted in the NBA Draft at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Thursday night. The lengthy forward passed up on the NBA Draft last year, when he was considered a borderline first-round pick, and instead returned to Syracuse for his senior year. 

Fair would have been the third former Orange player taken in this year’s class, after point guard Tyler Ennis and forward Jerami Grant were selected in the first and second rounds, respectively.

As Syracuse’s leading scorer for the past two years, Fair developed a deadly mid-range jumper and often flashed his explosiveness at the rim. In his senior year, he averaged 16.5 points per game, 6.4 rebounds and 1.3 steals as the go-to scorer for the Orange.

Analysts were unsure of how well Fair would adjust to being an NBA small forward, but now he’ll have to latch on with an NBA team as an undrafted free agent to prove himself.