Podz particulars ‘powerful’ determination selecting basketball over baseball initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bay Space
Brandin Podziemski grew to become an prompt contributor throughout his debut season with the Warriors, however what if the NBA All-Rookie First-Staff guard continued to pursue a unique sport as an alternative of chasing his basketball desires?
Podziemski not too long ago revealed on “The Dinner Desk” podcast that regardless of his dad’s need for him to play baseball, he fell in love with basketball in eighth grade and determined that was the sports activities path he’d take. That led the now-21-year-old to have a tough dialog.
“Oh, yeah. Tremendous onerous,” Podziemski mentioned. “My mother, she’s type of waft. So, no matter I wish to do, she’s like, ‘Yeah, that is wonderful.’ However my dad was so huge on me making it in baseball, taking part in. It is one thing that he could not make it in, so he wished me to make it in.
“It was a tough dialog, I bear in mind we had been driving again from a match in Nashville, and I simply informed him within the automobile, ‘I do not assume I wish to play baseball anymore. I believe basketball is one thing I like to do now, and that is simply the place I wish to cease.’
“I bear in mind him virtually crying about it as a result of he was like, ‘There isn’t any means. You are so proficient, you are so gifted, you are meant to play baseball.’ I identical to stood true to it. I used to be like, ‘If you happen to let me play, I’ll make it in basketball.’ 5, six years later acquired drafted, so simply stayed true to what I informed him.”
Podziemski then was requested if his dad had any particular message for him after the Warriors chosen him No. 19 within the 2023 NBA Draft.
“I do not assume it was something he mentioned. It was simply type of tears of pleasure,” Podziemski mentioned. “I believe amongst my entire household, simply because no one in my household has ever performed sports activities at even a university stage, most was highschool. So, for me to be somebody who made it out with our household, and with the ability to have fun them, having all of them there with me in Brooklyn was actually enjoyable.”
Podziemski rapidly has grow to be a revered NBA participant, reportedly being a extremely sought-after commerce chip in rumored offers for All-Stars.
Whether or not Golden State decides to maintain Podziemski in its long-term plans or embrace him because the centerpiece in a commerce for a participant resembling Utah Jazz ahead Lauri Markkanen, it is secure to say the Warriors benefited tremendously from his life-altering determination to forego baseball in favor of basketball.
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