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Robbins ’living the dream’ as painter and Temple men’s basketball player

Mike Robbins’ apartment bedroom looks more like an artist’s studio than a place to sleep.

He has blank canvases in one corner of the room, a section of a wall for unfinished canvases and another section for finished canvases.

He also an easel and two desks, one with paint and another with sketchbooks and notebooks.

“My bed is the thing that just looks like it doesn’t belong,” Robbins said.

When Robbins, now a senior guard on scholarship, joined the Owls as a sophomore walk-on for the 2014-15 season, he painted every day, except for when the team traveled, and he continued to do so last season.