When Gary Trent Jr. announced in April he was leaving Duke for Thursday’s NBA draft, his famous father compared him to a vintage European sports car that obeyed the “speed limit” during his one collegiate season.
So now that he’s entering a pro game all about space and pace, just how fast can he go?
“I think I can go pretty fast, but we’ll see,” he said. “Only time will tell.”
A Minnesota state high school champion when he was a sophomore and the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year when he was a junior, Trent decided to forgo his senior season at Apple Valley High and enrolled at a California prep school because it’d better prepare him for his collegiate and professional future.