Show Notes
The Professor has spent more than two decades breaking ankles, redefining streetball and building a massive audience outside the NBA. But one question has followed Grayson Boucher almost everywhere: If he was that good, why didn’t he make the league?
In this episode, The Professor gives the full answer, including getting cut by three community colleges, barely seeing the floor when he finally made a team and the unexpected opportunity that changed everything.
He also gets into why he returned to AND1 after turning them down multiple times, what he’s helping build for the brand now and what’s happening with his sneaker deal. Then there’s the story of the Spider-Man basketball video he almost didn’t make, which exploded into millions of views and changed his career.
Plus, why Steph Curry once asked him for a photo, what Adam Sandler has been trying to do with him for years, the basketball movie about his life currently in development and why, looking back, The Professor believes not making the NBA may have been the better outcome.
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