It wasn’t that Tosan Evbuomwan thought this — an NBA career — was impossible.

And why would he? Growing up in northern England, he was like every other good British lad, playing soccer. Beg your pardon; football.

Evbuomwan — born to immigrants from Nigeria — didn’t discover basketball until he was 14. Even coming to play in the U.S. collegiately was a longshot, 1-in-100 odds — literally. He never even considered the NBA as a wild pipe dream until after his solid freshman season at Princeton.

It wasn’t that Tosan Evbuomwan thought this — an NBA career — was impossible. He didn’t think of it at all.{ai:summary}<p>Tosan Evbuomwan, raised in northern England and initially focused on soccer, discovered basketball at age 14. Born to Nigerian immigrants, he faced long odds of making it to the U.S. collegiate level, with a 1-in-100 chance. His aspirations for the NBA only emerged after a strong freshman year at Princeton. </p><p>#sports</p>

How Nets G League find Tosan Evbuomwan found his way to the NBA from his soccer-mad birthplace

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