A native of Trenton, N.J., rookie New Orleans two-way contract signee Charles Cooke is venturing into the South for the first time in his basketball career. Cooke’s four-year college hoops career was split between James Madison and Dayton, schools located in Virginia and Ohio, respectively. The wing player sat down recently with Pelicans.com to discuss some of his interests away from basketball:
Best moment as an athlete: “Probably dunking for the first time. I was in eighth grade. My first time dunking in a game, I was a freshman in high school. It was an and-one.