As a nine-year-old growing up in the Washington, D.C. area, Nate Britt had a point guard role model. His idol was a fellow lefty point guard, an older player who would go on to be a star at a nearby high school and then earn a Division I scholarship to one of the country’s most prestigious basketball programs.
Britt and his role model shared the court in a prep game just once that Britt can recall, a Bishop O’Connell win over Britt’s Gonzaga squad. This summer, though, he found himself spending virtually every day with that player, as he and Kendall Marshall both worked on improving their games.