As the NBA workout invitations started coming in, Dez Wells had a dilemma with one in particular: Should he go up to Boston to work out for the Celtics or remain in College Park to walk at graduation?
The former Maryland men's basketball star called his mother for advice.
"She told me to get my butt to Boston," Wells recalled Thursday at Verizon Center, after finishing his workout with the Washington Wizards. "She said, 'I'll see you graduate and walk on that stage in the future.' … I can do it next year.'"
By then, the 6-foot-5 guard hopes to have finished his rookie year in the NBA.