To be honest with you, I always thought I was going to be in the NBA.
I actually got an invite from the 87ers, the D-League affiliate for the 76ers.
You've got to work your way into the NBA. Guys like Seth Curry, it took him a couple years in the G-League.
If I'm able to get drafted by the New York Knicks, it would be a blessing.
Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.
My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.
More than half the G League is going to be high school kids that are trying to make it. I hope I'm wrong. I absolutely hope I'm wrong.
I knew I wasn't going to play for the NBA.
For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
Let the D-League be for players who have been in the NBA, who are on the fringe, and that want to fight like heck to get in the NBA. They should have a living wage, not $17,000 to $25,000. A living wage.
I've also always known that I wouldn't be playing for the N.B.A.
Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.
We had guys come out of high school, Moses Malone, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, but all these guys could play.
When I was entering high school, my dad had me going around to different high schools, playing open gyms. A lot of coaches thought I was coming to their schools. If I would have done it over, I would have just stayed at one particular school just to play pickup basketball in the summertime.
I know people that was playing basketball better than me. If they were in the NBA, they could be All-Stars, those people. They just never had the opportunity to go play professional basketball in Europe.
It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.
You see far more swings and misses on can't-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.
