There were those early lonely nights in 2011 in Belgium, where he began a professional basketball career that's taken him to outposts you can't pronounce. He had failed to get drafted and failed to earn a guaranteed NBA contract with his Summer League play, so there he was. Living in a foreign land. No phone, no internet, doubt and bitterness seeping into his soul.
"I was struggling," Justin Holiday recalled on Wednesday after signing a contract to play next season with the Pacers.
"I really had to sit there and think. I was like, 'I'm just going to go home.