Phoenix Suns Rookies Discuss DREAM COME TRUE At Summer League

Phoenix Suns Rookies Discuss DREAM COME TRUE At Summer League

ready to play your first NBA summer. It’s dope. It’s still just working towards my dream for real. It’s a dream come true for me. So, uh I’m just still working towards that. So, you’re 21 today? Yeah, I just turned 21. And you’re the last guy to leave the gym. It’s your birthday because you’re the hardest working guy out here. Just getting extra shots up and extra reps, making sure I’m uh just working on my game. Is this how you envisioned your 21st birthday to be? Nah, but I I’ll take it though. to be the main you look at obviously what what do you want to establish right away in this first in this first game? Um really just showing my ability to compete uh like I was saying before like if anything goes wrong I can always just uh know that I played hard um and gave him my all on both ends of the floor. So that’s just making sure I show effort. Okay. Talking about defensively, obviously your ability to to switch out on guys and and play a smaller guy up top as a two-way guy. How are you feeling about the opportunity? Oh, I’m feeling feeling great. You know, uh when I got that call, you know, to be on this on be a part of this organization, I was just thrilled, you know, cuz I had a great workout. I feel like I really um I feel like I g well with these guys and deal with these coaches and stuff front office and everything like that. So, when I got that call and everything like that, which it just means the world right now for me. So take me through the workout. How did that go initially for you? Did you come to Phoenix for the workout? Yeah, I came. Yeah. So I was I went to Phoenix. So I worked at Phoenix twice. So my first workout with Phoenix um you know went really well. Show my live threat ability. Uh play I play defensive end and I feel like that that’s what brought me back. So you know second workout went even better, you know. So and I see see they made the right decision. I I’m glad they did. So how much space was between the first workout and second workout? Like how many? So the first So I had went on like 13 workouts. Like the first workout was um like early June, early June. Then last one was like late June.

Phoenix Suns rookies Rasheer Fleming and C.J. Huntley speak to the media at NBA Summer League about being drafted or signed by the franchise, learning from other players like Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro and what they need to do to earn their spot in the NBA and in the franchise for the future.

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