The life of an NBA rookie isn’t as glamorous as it seems.
To be clear, getting paid seven figures a year to play basketball is a cushy gig in the grand scheme of things. But on the Association’s totem pole, the new kids on the block have to pay their dues as a right of passage.
From locker room pranks and expensive dinner tabs to getting roughed up in practices and games, it’s a process to earn your stripes in basketball’s premier league.
For former Arkansas forward Adou Thiero, now on the Los Angeles Lakers, things got taken up a few notches.