‘If we were in the US, we’d be rock stars’: How the NBA global academy is helping players reach higher levels | rpjward
have been drafted to the NBA, while Australian guard Tyrese Proctor is about to leave Canberra to join Duke University’s celebrated college basketball team.
The NBA’s head of elite basketball Chris Ebersole was in Canberra to look over the NBA Basketball Without Borders Asia camp at the AIS last week and as the man who oversees these academies, he was quick to add that the league’s top executives were noticing the impact of the program.“Most of the players are not going to make it to the NBA, at least not right away,” Ebersole said.
“If you look at the three players we’ve had drafted, they have all got to the NBA via different routes. Mathurin went from the Latin America academy to college basketball, Giddey signed with the NBL Next Stars program and Daniels signed with Ignite. Forward Akira Jacobs, 18, won the sportsmanship award at last week’s camp and he aspires to join the academy program.
“Giddey was similar and now Tyrese is on the same path. The similarities are that they learned how to be pros, learned to work hard and learned how to learn.
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