When Jesse Edwards takes the court for the Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team this fall, we potentially have LeBron James to thank for it.
The freshman from the Netherlands hadn’t thought much of basketball before he was 13 and his brother started watching highlights of James, according to Mike Waters’s story on Syracuse.com. Since then, Edwards seemingly jumped right in and quickly developed his game — so much so that the 6-foot-11 forward wound up at IMG Academy in Florida (though he’d originally planned to go to Brewster Academy).
Edwards is not the only newer-to-basketball player SU’s had over the years.