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posted 06-30-2021 12:38 PM
“I ended up loving basketball and realized I wanted to be great,” Tshiebwe told reporters Tuesday. “I started watching the NBA and said, ‘I’ve got to practice more, I think I can play in the NBA one day.'”
In an effort to reach his NBA dreams, he moved to the United States in November 2015, just one year after learning to play for the first time. Upon arrival, Kentucky basketball was one of the first things he learned about in America, regularly huddling around the television with his Mountain Mission School teammates to watch the Wildcats play.
“I didn’t know anything about college basketball,” said Tshiebwe. “The first time I came to the U.S., we stayed in a school dorm and everyone – my teammates when we were living together – everybody was talking about Kentucky. Every time Kentucky was on TV, we were watching Kentucky.”
At first, the 6-foot-9 center didn’t understand why his teammates turned on the television when Kentucky played, but not when other colleges such as Duke and North Carolina took the floor. Their answer? “Kentucky is a school that’s like professional basketball.”
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