It's a pity that Portlandia is ending its run after eight seasons. Otherwise, the IFC Network’s send-up of life in absurdist Portland could have based a character on C.J. McCollum. Apart from the requisite hipster facial hair, the Portland shooting guard is a study in unconventional. A product of the vaunted NBA factory that is…Lehigh, McCollum is the rare athlete whose locker doubles as a library, who spent a week before the season at a business symposium at Harvard, who doesn’t merely interact cheerfully with the media, but has ambitions of one day joining the profession. Such as it is.
C.J. McCollum Q&A: The NBA's Most Media-Savvy Star
