Three days into quarantine, Markelle Fultz pulled into an Orlando-area Walmart to get a basketball hoop.
“Just cause I was in a crazy rhythm at the end of the season,” Fultz said on Monday during a ZOOM conference with members of the media. “My biggest thing was I didn’t want to lose that rhythm.”
Too nervous to enter a store during the COVID-19 pandemic, he ordered the hoop online and picked it up. Then came the difficult part: assembling it.
“I never knew how hard it was to put a basketball hoop together,” he said. “But I figured it out.