Scot Pollard remembers welcoming quiet, wide-eyed McDonald’s All-American Paul Pierce to the University of Kansas campus in the summer of 1995.
“He was so young. He just turned 17 when he got there. We called him ‘Bambi’ because he was all elbows and knees and hadn’t grown into his body yet,” said Pollard, who in ’95 was getting ready to start his junior season at KU.
“As soon as you saw him on the court you could tell he was special. We knew superstardom was on the way. We saw a guy with a great work ethic, one who matured as a teammate before our eyes,” added Pollard, the only person to have been a teammate of Pierce in both college and the NBA.