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Q&A: After playing hoops in Israel, Nate Robinson sets sights on NFL

Nate Robinson stays busy. The hyperactive, 5-foot-9 peripatetic point guard, who has played 11 seasons in the NBA (most recently for the New Orleans Pelicans), currently plays in Israel for Hapoel Tel Aviv.

But Robinson has bigger plans in mind. In March, he announced plans to try to play in the NFL, returning to the sport in which he starred at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School and started seven games at cornerback as a freshman at the University of Washington before quitting football to focus on basketball.

If successful, Robinson would join legendary former Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant as the second player known to have played in both the NBA and the NFL -- and the first since the 1950s.