My special guest is Josh Childress. Josh is a professional basketball player with his distinguished career taking him to the heights of the NBA with Atlanta, Phoenix, Brooklyn and New Orleans, a stint in Europe with Olympicaos while also down-under with the Sydney Kings and Adelaide 36ers.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
3:35 – Welcome Josh Childress
4:00 – Andrew Bogut & exciting times for the NBL
4:50 – Attraction for playing in the NBL
6:21 – Expectations as a foreign import
8:18 – From the court to the board room and nearly owning an NBL team
9:24 – The Big 3 and ownership of the league
14:00 – Travel and competitiveness
15:30 – Difficulties of playing 3 on 3
16:20 – Business with Al Harrington
18:00 – Origins and growing up in Compton
21:11 – Getting into Basketball with this brothers
23:00 – First time he ever dunked
24:40 – Impact of his mother on his life
25:37 – The joys of Fatherhood
28:27 – Being on the road and family
29:00 – Stanford and choosing a college
30:42 – Nearly going to North Carolina
33:30 – Finishing his degree as a mature age student
36:42 – What point he thought he could make the NBA
38:35 – Choosing an agent and his personal experiences
40:45 – The NBA draft processes
42:30 – Draft Day
44:48 – First day in the NBA
46:00 – Going from being a college star to a six man
48:12 – Guarding Lebron and Kobe
50:50 – Leaders he admires
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