Jason Terry’s former life might’ve been the perfect analogy for his current one.
Amid a 19-year NBA career that included a championship, Terry, the new head coach of Denver’s G League affiliate the Grand Rapids Gold, spent his offseasons bouncing from one AAU Tournament to the next. Terry proudly drove a minivan while overseeing the basketball development of 15- and 16-year-old girls.
“It is a grind,” Terry said Tuesday at his introductory news conference for the Gold. “When you talk about traveling across the country, there are no first-class seats, there are no charter flights. It’s you, it’s some young kids and dreams.