![]() He had just begun playing competitively only a few years earlier, and he seemed lucky to have even gotten this far. He didn’t get a college offer until his junior year at La Salle, when Siena offered him a spot. To be in that position and be able to be that inspiration to kids around the neighborhood where I grew up and kids in New York in general, it’s a blessing, for real.”īut there was a time none of this seemed like it was in his path. I’ll be the first kid from Brooklyn to get drafted in the lottery in Brooklyn. I think I’m gonna be the first lottery pick since Stephon Marbury from Brooklyn. “That brought a lot of joy to me, because that’s where I’m from and I was one of those kids once. A bunch of kids ran up to me all excited, saying I’m about to be in the NBA,” he says. “I went back to my neighborhood when I first landed in New York, and I went to the park where I used to play at. But with the draft taking place at Barclays Center, down the street from his home, he is still in disbelief how everything has come full circle. Since then he has gone from western Massachusetts to central Connecticut to Miami this past offseason. To my first high school, La Salle, I took two trains and a bus for an hour every morning.” ![]() But (Fulton is) where my grandma lived and that’s where all my friends were. “I grew up on 19th Street at the Fulton Projects,” Bouknight says. That got him by, but when he was a junior at La Salle Academy in Manhattan’s East Village, he started to realize basketball could be his ticket out. But when I left New York, I had to find a different hustle.” “So I’m already smart with how I spend my money. “I’m not someone that grew up with a lot of money, so I had to find different ways to save my money and then at the same time get what I wanted,” he says. He was always trying to find his hustle, and before it was on the court, it was paying people to wait in line at sneaker drops so he could flip them on StockX. The 20-year-old has been part of the tangled masses in New York his whole life. “The position I’m in, I never thought in a million years I’d be here. “This is still surreal to me,” the new Hornets guard says with a laugh. Not even a thank you for answering their awkward question. ![]() No congrats on making his NBA dream come true.
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