741 games in the NBA in career behind him and 4 call-ups among the All-Stars. Kemba Walkerpresent at Basketball Without Borders together with coach Taylor JenkinsDanilo Gallinari and Terance Mannhas made his veteran experience available to what may one day be the new “recruits” of NBA basketball.
For the current New York Knicks player (returning from a season full of ups and downs, more due to decisions by the team’s coaching staff than anything else), being available with young players is a way to reciprocate all that basketball has carried.
It’s important for me to be at Basketball Without Borders trying to give back everything that basketball has given me. In Europe or the rest of the world it’s hard for kids to be in contact with NBA professionals so I try to help these young kids in any way I can. Not just talking about basketball, but also about life in general
Kemba Walker
At their age, Kemba was very close to entering the professional world: the Rice High School di Harlem (neighborhood of his New York, the city where he was born and will now play for another year) passing through UConn and the title of 2011 with the aim of making the leap to the top (chosen in the NBA Draft in 2012 by the Charlotte Bobcats of the time with the 9th call) and become as big as his idols.
Who was my idol at 15/16? I would say Michael Jordan, but also other players like Allen Iverson, Tim Hardaway… the old school
Kemba Walker
