Name: Pat Connaughton is excited to prove his doubters wrong in the dunk contest | NBA on ESPN
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when you had your 44 inch vertical at the combine.

How did that change your life Didn't change your life?

Past simple

Um, yeah, honestly, I think it wasn't just the vertical.

It was the vertical, coupled with the way that I tested in the other, you know, athletic challenges, if you will.

The half full court run the cone drill changed directions.

I think if you looked at all of them, I placed in the top three and every categories for guards at the combine.

And I think for me, it was something I always knew.

Uh, but I was also playing a power forward in our name, so I understood why people didn't always know it.

You had, like, the like, the little chin go Teoh Baseball goatee.

You were going in the heritage of the luke hair and goatees, the way we jumped, like, two inches.

Yeah, my guy from New England who's tall but not like Wow, Look at this freak athlete like you did.

I mean, like, you know, went to it like white men can't jump where you go in.

One of my favorite basketball stories, actually involved with my good friend Serb as Napier.

And I got recruited basically by an area close to where I went to high school upon the North Shore in Boston to playing a game with them.

It was one neighborhood verse, another neighborhood, one neighborhood on the north Shore, one neighborhood in Mission help projects and, ah, West Side story.

And I was good friends with all the guys in the North Shore, and I said, Absolutely no problem.

It was a Saturday afternoon, and I vividly remember it.

Probably It was before I committed it for my junior high school.

Shabbas had been committed to UConn, if not at Yukon for some school and came back.

And I remember this is like New York first Boston action to hear.

And so I remember them inviting me to play and me saying Absolutely My dad asking where?

Because at the time I could drive myself.

I set out in Mission Hill right near you know, uh, right near the Reggie Lewis center in Roxbury, and he was all, like, I'll come in with you.

I was like, All right, like, figure you want to watch again?

I got a call from one of my buddies, uh, who was on the team that was playing for when I was on my way and behave like before you get here.

Like, call us when you get the Reggie Lewis center will come get you, and then you can come in.

I was like, all right, I didn't think much of it.

When I got to the jam, I realized I was I was the only white guy in the gym, and, um, the level of by that the level of basketball that was being played was very high.

And that was those of situations I loved.

I love playing as the best competition, and the best part about it was when I stepped on the floor.

Now my buddies from the North Shore and the team that I was on understood what was what I was capable of, but nobody else did.

She bats did a little bit cause we have gone back and forth.

The whole gym was wondering when she would be there when she was a bit, and when she bad showed up, the place erupted because it's technically a home game in their eyes, for for the team.

Um, throughout the game, I made a few shots.

The gym started to wonder who I waas, and I remember going down the right wing on a fast break.

When my buddies Darryl hit me on the bounce pass, I went up a guy, one of blocking, and I dunked on and the gym exploded.

The game stops like the videos that you see now you're correct, and at that moment, the whole atmosphere kind of change in our favor.

Now they bats will tell you they went on to win the game by three in the But I remember after I dunked, um, going over, they took me out for a minute.

Little kid running up to me and pointing to my dad and asking if I was related to him.

And I was like, I was very student observation.

It was good, but so he wanted to go for talk to my dad about how I was able to jump, which actually was also pretty astute of the kids.

Try toe, learn how he could be able to jump that I.

So it was one of my favorite basketball memories just because, um, you know the city of Boston in the Massachusetts, that's where I'm from, And the people in places in that area have helped get me to where I am, But that's kind of the same type of shock and awe that people have had it every single level that I've gotten to.

So, um, but you are always been a freak athlete because you're obviously a picture.

Have you always been, like, multi talented in this way?

What other talent do you have that maybe we don't know about world?

So can you throw the ball Ixe 65 yards to throw it like 50 from my knees.

So you got someone, in fact, So you play quarterback in high school?

I got recruited a little bit before I stopped playing.

And, honestly, owners and I stopped playing.

Was because it was a sport that in start And like, organized until high school.

And I didn't want Do you put up big numbers in that to Ah, yeah, you try?

I think I caught a touchdown, ran a touchdown and threw a touchdown in one year.

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