As a late-blooming basketball prospect who wasn’t nationally-ranked as a youngster, Anthony Davis is a real-life example of how not every NBA star became one overnight. That’s part of the message Davis tries to relay to children at the summer basketball camps he hosts, including this week’s two-day event at the University of New Orleans.
“I actually stressed that to them, about chasing their dreams and how I ended up where I am,” said Davis, who experienced a well-chronicled growth spurt in high school. “(My background) relates to them a little more, because most of them probably aren’t prodigies.