While in Johannesburg for the NBA Africa Game 2017, Pacers guard Victor Oladipo took some time to speak to reporters by phone about his participation in the event, his connection to Africa, and his thoughts about the upcoming NBA season.
Oladipo, whose parents were both born in Nigeria and immigrated to the United States in the 1980s, grew up with an intimate connection to Nigeria and the continent of Africa as a whole.
"I'm a first-generation Nigerian-American and I pretty much know a lot about the culture. I grew up on it, grew up listening to the language, the music, eating the food, things like that.