Break the Backboard: Festus Ezeli on Championships, Reinvention, and Life After the NBA
What happens when the kid who scored his first basket on his own team becomes an NBA champion, and then has to start over again?
On Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan talks with former Golden State Warrior Festus Ezeli about a journey nobody could have scripted. Festus grew up in Benin City, Nigeria, finished high school at 14, and moved alone to Yuba City, California, to live with his uncle and chase a dream of becoming a doctor. Strangers kept asking the 6'4" teenager if he played basketball. He didn't, until he scored his first basket on his own team and got cut from his high school team…
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