Antonio Reeves on his journey to the NBA | New Orleans Pelicans
I’m Aon Summers alongside one of our newest Pelicans Antonio Reeves congratulations welcome to New Orleans I appreciate that thank you you go on day two first ever 2-day NBA draft what were your thoughts in that moment um my thoughts in the moment was basically you know why is it two days it was kind of confusing at first but I end up just you know being patient you know waiting my turn you know the next day so having to wait until day two for round two how cool is it though that the Pelicans traded to get you I how much does that show you how much they want you here man it’s it means a lot to me you know how that happen you know my name showing up and it’s say in Orlando and then they say Pelicans right after means like it means a lot like you know they want me here so I’m definitely appreciative with that you get introduced today you put on the jersey for the first time is it real now yeah it is um I’m kind of you know in a moment a little bit now but once I heard my name called it kind of all hit me at once you know so I think it didn’t really settle in as much yet so people have talked about your ability to shoot obviously from outside but I’ve heard that you can score all three levels so what are you going to show us here um that I can do that you know I can shoot the three ball have mid-range and a Flo the game as well so I’m going to show that I can score all three levels and basically you know just play D and do whatever the team needs me to do you played 3 years at Illinois State then you transferred to Kentucky played two there so that’s 5 years which brings you 24 years old I think it’s kind of rude that people have said that you’re old but people that say that they might not know your game or what more you can bring so kind of what is your response to that take my response is I have a lot of stuff to bring to the table um basically when people say that I don’t worry about it you know just shut that out and just show them you know what I can do on the floor and what I’m capable of doing yeah you have a lot more years than it’s just getting started yeah facts with your basketball Journey when did it start when did you kind of fall in love with the game I fell in love with the game basically when I was around I’ll would say around like six or seven uh playing in little leagues and camps and things like that and basically just falling in love with the game and my dad brought me a basketball court when I was 7 years old and put on my granny backyard so that’s when I really took offl with what up the game yeah that would definitely help having one in your backyard outside of basketball what do you like to do I like to bowl I’m a really good bowler you know I have my own shoes I have my own Jersey I have my own bag but you know that’s one thing and then I like playing video games as well I read on your profile though on your Kentucky profile that you like to draw yeah so is that something that you do to kind of get your mind off things I used to but you know I stopped doing it because I kind of lost my abilities a little bit but I used to do it when I was a junior in high school I really used to have a class that I can you know draw my own face and draw different things so yeah we know New Orleans is a fun place food is get mentioned a lot what are you looking forward to about being in this city definitely the food like you said like the Crawfish the seafood and things like that I’m really looking forward to and you know the weather as well it’s really nice out here so I’m definitely looking forward to it you might be the first person that has said they like the weather and they don’t think it’s hot yeah it is hot but I like the sun more than it cold to be honest so there you go it was really good getting to talk to you welcome to the team we’re excited to have you here and we look forward to seeing you on the court soon thank you I appreciate it sure
Erin Summers sits down with the New Orleans Pelicans’ 47th overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft Antonio Reeves (Kentucky, guard).
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He is basically an older buddy heild.