Jaime Echenique It is already history of the Washington Wizards and of Colombia by becoming the first player from the South American country to play in the NBA. The 24-year-old pvot played three minutes in the Wizards win over Cleveland Cavaliers (110-93).
“It has been an incredible day,” summed up a very emotional Echenique at the press conference after the meeting, with tears in his eyes. “I am simply happy for myself, for my family, for my country and for the people who believed in me.“, aadi.
This is neither the end nor the beginning: this is the continuation of all the work that I have done throughout my entire career.
The young man was very grateful for the opportunity the Wizards have given him: “Through my mind right now it just happens to keep working, keep exploiting my abilities, keep believing in me. This is neither the end nor the beginning: this is the continuation of all the work I have done throughout my career, “he explained. The player also wanted to send a message to Colombia and Latin America just before breaking down in tears again:” If it’s worth dreaming. “
THE ORIGIN OF ‘BABY DUNCAN’
Jaime Jess Echenique Salinas, the driver’s son Jaime Echenique and from the cook Lidia Salinas looking in the mirror of Tim Duncan and LaMarcus Aldridge, grew four inches in three months and con 12 aos cambi el baseball, he played first base on the Eleventh of November, for basketball. It seems to be right.
“I was bad, but bad, maaalo. Perverse… I paid to go to my first national tournament “, confessed Echenique in an interview with the newspaper ‘El Espectador’.
The Colegio Colegio Pestalozzi and the Academia de la Montaa club were his basketball stops in Colombia before making the leap to the United States, where he played at a Junior College in Texas until he enrolled in Wichita State. In four years he graduated in sociology and psychology after shining in the NCAA in a stage in which he was christened ‘Baby Duncan’ by John Lucas, famous former player and former NBA starter.
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