Jan 28, 2019
Hello everyone and welcome back to Network Nation. I am excited to introduce today’s guest to you because he is a real example of how self-motivation and determination can lead you out of the neighborhood and into the world. Today’s guest has been all over the world for the love of the game-basketball that is. Growing up he was a self-described “awkward skinny” kid who felt baseball was his sport. After being asked to play in a recreational basketball game because of his height, the tall awkward skinny kid “stunk” at the game. Instead of walking away from a challenge, our guest gathered his courage and began practicing daily at home-learning dribbling skills, offensive and defensive moves. Soon he became one of the best basketball players at his school in South Miami(lettering all 4 years for varsity basketball) and then in the State (becoming the leading scorer in the State of Florida his senior year averaging 32 points per game). He was selected in 1994 as Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year and a McDonald’s All-American.
Highly recruited, he eventually left his home state of Florida to play for the Indiana University Hoosiers under the legendary Coach Bobby Knight. Playing all four years for the Hoosiers, it was during this time that he was selected to represent the United States in Basketball for the 1995 Junior Olympics in Athens, Greece. After graduating from Indiana University, he traveled the world playing professional basketball across Europe and the US. His love of basketball continues this time coaching hundreds of players through his own organization ATTACK Basketball and as a Head Coach with Breakthrough Basketball. Today our guest helps young basketball players develop their basketball skills and their inner belief.