Brook Lopez had an up-and-down first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, but the sweet-shooting big man ended the year on a positive note, averaging 15.4 points on 55.9 percent shooting while knocking down 36.7 percent of his threes after the NBA All-Star break.
Lopez, a free agent this summer, now has the rest of the offseason to pursue his own interests because the Lakers didn’t make the playoffs.
He’s chosen to use that time to head to India, where the NBA recently established a basketball academy. After checking out the talent there and finding himself impressed with it, Lopez told the New Indian Express that he thinks the country’s next step towards producing top basketball talent will be to establish its own professional basketball league (emphasis mine):
“It’s (soccer) increasing in popularity in America obviously and has been for a while.