Academy Quote by Josh Hart

I've always wanted to have some sort of academy or program that links education and basketball.

— Luol Deng

Notre Dame was the first school to offer me basketball-wise.

— Pat Connaughton

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in…

— Nick Offerman

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

— Ken Jeong

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my…

— Nerlens Noel

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

— The Undertaker

I went to an ACC school, Wake Forest, I'm a big college basketball fan, and it was just a natural interest for me.

— Lee Norris

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at…

— Jennifer Brady

I'm from Denver, and basketball there isn't near what it is out in Chicago or Detroit or L.A. There weren't that many great players…

— Chauncey Billups

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

— Paul D. Boyer

I went to a small high school in - down in south Georgia. Terrell Academy is the name of it.

— Cole Swindell

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the…

— Cam'ron