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Nico Harrison, from Marketing Rep to NBA General Manager

Bozeman, Montana started it all. An unassuming city in Southwest Montana, Bozeman is home to Montana State University, the state’s largest university with an enrollment of almost 17,000, in a city with just under 50,000 residents.

In 1992, a young Nico Harrison — after a season at West Point Military academy — left his native Tigard, Oregon and arrived at Bozeman’s airport to embark on the second part of his collegiate career. Harrison described his first impressions of Montana in an interview he gave to his alma mater.

“There were like moose on the walls in the airport and I thought ‘What have I got myself into?