SAN ANTONIO – Nuggets forward Zeke Nnaji didn’t have a PlayStation or Xbox growing up. He wasn’t allowed to have a cell phone until his junior year of high school.
With enough going on between his on-court pursuits and prospects as a budding pianist, his parents sought to limit what distractions they could.
Teenage Nnaji didn’t appreciate the restrictions; NBA Nnaji gets it.
His work ethic, learned from his parents, is the primary reason he vaulted from a relatively unheralded recruit at Arizona to a second-year forward now threatening to crack the Nuggets’ rotation.
“Overlooked a little bit in high school, going into college, kind of the same way, so I’ve always kind of been underrated,” Nnaji told The Denver Post.