It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about the NCAA rules and everything that happened in the past because I've just been focused on practicing and getting ready... I was trying to reach my dreams, and that's to play in the NBA.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.
I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.