Kemba Walker Is Smiling as He Reads This (Published 2020)
Many N.B.A. stars are loud, flashy and quick to air grievances. What to make of one who shies away from all of that?
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Kemba Walker Is Smiling as He Reads This (Published 2020)
Many N.B.A. stars are loud, flashy and quick to air grievances. What to make of one who shies away from all of that?www.nytimes.com
“I’m boring, man. I don’t like doing much,” Walker said. “I don’t want to be a coach. If anything, I just want to be maybe behind the scenes. Developmental. I want to be around the young guys, the rookies — the second- and third-year players and help them grow their game.”
He just wants to keep playing as long as the league will have him, just like Vince Carter, who is 43 and only just retired this season.
“I want to play as long as I can,” Walker said. “I want them to say: ‘Kemba, you can’t play no more. We’re kicking you out of the league.’ I want to be one of those guys to try and get up there like Vince. I want to be the guy at the end of the bench, clapping for my young guys. ‘Let’s go.’”
Great article on Kemba.
He may not want to coach looking forward now but when his playing days are over it would not surprise me to see him coaching in college where his motivational skills might be incalculable.
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Kemba Walker Is Smiling as He Reads This (Published 2020)
Many N.B.A. stars are loud, flashy and quick to air grievances. What to make of one who shies away from all of that?
This is fantastic, thank you for posting.
Edit: 3:00am?!? For the love of Calhoun, Tom, get some sleep!
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Great article. I remember driving through campus when Kemba was a freshman. He was walking out of Gampel with a teammate. Of course, he had a huge smile on his face which brightened Hillside Road. I sometimes mistook his smile for not wanting to win badly enough. Glad to say that I was very wrong. As the article says, he chooses to be happy.