After nine seasons as a professional basketball player in Australia, Mitch Creek ventured across the Pacific for a chance at his dream, the NBA ... even though he know admits he didn’t always believe in himself.
Although he had previous summertime stints with the Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks, Creek hadn’t fully bought into the idea of him competing on the NBA level until he was officially offered his first 10-day contract – which he thought was a joke – on January 25.
As the Twitter account of Australia’s NBL said, “all of the feels.