Lakers rookie Quincy Olivari shared a particular second with certainly one of his idols within the Lakers remaining pre-season recreation earlier than opening night time.
Though his childhood hero Steph Curry didn’t play, the pair exchanged some phrases and took an image collectively after the sport.
Olivari turned emotional whereas recalling the dialog he had with the Warriors legend throughout his postgame press convention.
“I don’t even know what to say, man,” Olivari stated. “That’s my favourite participant ever. The very first thing he instructed me was, ‘I’m an enormous fan of your recreation.’ And reality be instructed, I’m an enormous fan of him.
“I had his jersey (rising up). He signed it twice. I used to sleep in that jersey. I simply needed to be like him so dangerous. Simply to have the ability to meet him, him be capable of have some respect for me, and for us to speak within the again—he gave me a pair of his sneakers and signed them. That meant the world to me, man. It simply means quite a bit.”
Curry had one other change with Olivari later that Friday night time in an Instagram put up of his.
“Pleasure bro,” Curry wrote. “Recognize you being an actual one and letting me know the historical past!”
Curry additionally made his personal put up with Olivari in it. so he returned the favor and commented on the put up, “Recognize u large dawg”.
Olivari was an undrafted free agent who signed with the Lakers this summer season after 5 seasons of faculty basketball.
Following the Lakers v Warriors recreation through which he dropped 22 factors, seven rebounds and two assists whereas taking pictures 8-for-16 from the sphere and 5-for-9 from deep, he was rewarded with a two-way cope with the purple and gold.
Such a healthful technique to begin the season.
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