Festus Ezeli was drafted by the Golden State Warriors out of Vanderbilt in 2012 at age 22, and to say he was a work in progress would be an understatement.
Ezeli graduated high school in Nigeria at age 14, skipping kindergarten and grades 5 and 6, but actually didn’t pick up the game of basketball until he moved to Sacramento after graduating high school.
His parents sent him to the states to be a doctor, but the size and raw talent of the Nigerian was too great for him to pursue his true calling: an NBA big man.