Lakers rookie Quincy Olivari shared a particular second with one in every of his idols within the Lakers ultimate pre-season sport earlier than opening evening.
Though his childhood hero Steph Curry didn’t play, the pair exchanged some phrases and took an image collectively after the sport.
Olivari turned emotional whereas recalling the dialog he had with the Warriors legend throughout his postgame press convention.
“I don’t even know what to say, man,” Olivari stated. “That’s my favourite participant ever. The very first thing he instructed me was, ‘I’m an enormous fan of your sport.’ And fact be instructed, I’m an enormous fan of him.
“I had his jersey (rising up). He signed it twice. I used to sleep in that jersey. I simply needed to be like him so dangerous. Simply to have the ability to meet him, him have the ability to have some respect for me, and for us to speak within the again—he gave me a pair of his sneakers and signed them. That meant the world to me, man. It simply means quite a bit.”
Curry had one other alternate with Olivari later that Friday evening in an Instagram submit of his.
“Pleasure bro,” Curry wrote. “Respect you being an actual one and letting me know the historical past!”
Curry additionally made his personal submit with Olivari in it. so he returned the favor and commented on the submit, “Respect u massive dawg”.
Olivari was an undrafted free agent who signed with the Lakers this summer season after 5 seasons of faculty basketball.
Following the Lakers v Warriors sport during which he dropped 22 factors, seven rebounds and two assists whereas capturing 8-for-16 from the sector and 5-for-9 from deep, he was rewarded with a two-way take care of the purple and gold.
Such a healthful approach to begin the season.
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