For anyone who says Travis Perry CANNOT be good because he is unathletic, I will point out there have been multiple players who succeeded in their basketball careers who were not athletic. Some of them even played in the league.
Well, for starters you have all-time great NBA point guards such as Steve Nash, John Stockton and Mark Price who were not athletic or large and still are recognized as outstanding. As a matter of fact, John Stockton weighed even less in college than Travis Perry.
You can make an argument that Stephen Curry isn’t a great athlete, although I would concede that he has elite speed and quickness. Point still stands that he is far less athletic than many of his peers, yet dominates at a historic level.
You have other guards who had NBA careers despite not being athletic, such as Mark Jackson, Matthew Dellavedova, JJ Barea, Damon Jones and Jimmer Fredette…that’s just naming a few that come to mind.
Movie into other positions, you find that some of the greatest players in the NBA today aren’t even great athletes such as Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic. Our own Antoine Walker allegedly was measured at a twenty inch (!!!) vertical leap yet had a very successful NBA career. Brian Scalabrine, Sasha Vujacic, and Peja Stojacovich had NBA careers despite not being athletic. Heck, Matt Bonner — yes, Matt freaking Bonner — who was one of the least athletic players I have ever seen, had a multiple year NBA career.
None of that even includes Larry Bird, who you can debate about athletically. Whether you want to say he was or wasn’t, it was very clear that he beat you playing basketball as fundamentally as anyone and it wasn’t athleticism that made him good.
We’ve also seen some hefty boys succeed in the league as well, such as Robert “Tractor” Traylor and Zach Randolph. The idea that you have to be an athlete is false. It definitely helps, but you can be really good at basketball without athleticism being a feature focus.
In short, no I obviously don’t see Travis Perry ever becoming an NBA player, but there is no reason he can’t be really good in college someday.