Al Jefferson is rolling on the road from Mississippi to Atlanta, having just wrapped his annual basketball camp in his native state and now preparing to fly out to Salt Lake City for his latest game in the BIG3 league.
His impending return to Utah — where he spent three of his 14 NBA seasons — has made him a bit philosophical. While those years weren’t the most statistically prodigious of his career, they did perhaps have the biggest impact upon him.
Jefferson, a 6-foot-10, 280-pound center, was drafted by the Celtics out of Prentiss High School in Mississippi.