Nosa Okunbo, son of late Nigerian company magnate, Hosa ‘Wells’ Okunbo, is certainly one of the brightest college basketball gamers in the United States.
Nonetheless, as obvious as his expertise and capabilities are as a future NBA player, the debate about his features has been raging.
Endowed with a towering height of 6ft 7inch, the 19-year-aged is presently organized for greatness in the activity.
The Edo-born ahead, nevertheless, is already accomplishing greatness off the court docket, obtaining bagged the 2022 Euroknowledge Youth Advocacy award as the youngest recipient of the prestigious award for his effects between youths.
The teen also acquired the Worldwide Burj CEO awards for his outreaches by means of his Africa to the Planet (ATTW) non-financial gain business he launched not long in the past.
But Okunbo has vowed that he would not enable the media buzz get to him.
“A whole lot of people say I am underrated, when other individuals say I’m overrated. I try not to glance also considerably into media buzz and criticism and stay far more amount headed,” Okunbo said.
On how he started participating in basketball, he disclosed that a coach in the US inspired him to go after the sport on a expert amount soon after he experienced ditched soccer.
“I began playing basketball competitively at 15-yrs-aged and it all began with me goofing about at a random gym in Houston, and an AAU coach urged me to start off getting it seriously,” Okunbo disclosed.
“It was a large choice I experienced to make to quit soccer just after by now currently being an established football player again dwelling and to go throughout the entire world and begin a totally new activity.”
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