“If anyone says, ‘I was gonna make it,’” Hield explained, “like 95 percent of people would say track would have been number one, like, the way out for me.”
Buddy Buckets, hailing from Freeport, Bahamas, wasn't supposed to be a basketball player.
Not until March Madness was No. 24 intrigued by the game of basketball. And the rest is history.
“The momentum when they start making threes and dunks and the crowd is crazy,” Buddy said. “People taking their shirts off going crazy…that was like the biggest thing I liked about it, and after that I always wanted to feel that moment.