Kasparas Jakucionis Reveals Who His NBA Idols Were

No, to be honest. I'm the first one. No one in my family played basketball. That's kind of weird, because even when I was in the draft, sitting in the green room, whoever got drafted, they would say, oh, his mom played basketball there, his dad was in the NBA, his dad was in the Euroleague, and I was like, okay, I'm the only one that, I'm the first one, so, I don't know. So with the family not playing, did you watch NBA basketball growing up? Growing up, I watched more European basketball, just because of time difference, and even if we didn't have channels to watch NBA, they wouldn't translate it, you know, so, maybe some YouTube highlights you would watch, but that's the only thing that was possible. So, I was watching more European basketball, but growing up, when I was older, I started to watch more NBA, and obviously moving here in college, I watched a lot more NBA. Who was your team when you started watching it? Who was your team or players that you liked watching? When Luka was in Madrid, I watched him a lot, and all his transition, like, when he got drafted, so, I watched him the most. So, when did you... Stay in shape. Yeah. Stay in shape, don't watch that ----. No, yeah, the playmaking, watching self-chart creation, and all that kind of stuff. So, obviously, you start transitioning watching Euroleague basketball, when did you decide, like, hey, listen, NBA is something I'd like to do or want to do? I'd say when I was in Barcelona. Barcelona. Yeah, because, I mean, I got a chance to work with all the professional guys, and almost all of them were in NBA at some point, so... Who were the pros on Barcelona at that time? Who were the pros there? There was Nikola Miritis, Saturanski, Jabari Parker. Oh, Jabari was over there. Jabari was over there. After Ricky Rubio came for a little bit, so... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I worked out with him a little bit, so... It was a lot of experienced guys. Didn't Ricky Rubio just say some ----? Yeah, he went off on the NBA. He just went off on the league. Yeah. He did, he just went off on the league. What'd he say, like... He said... Guys going out and talking to people. He didn't fall in love with it, because he went in pretty hard. Okay, I do say something to Ricky Rubio. You sat at the table and let him do it. So, you just, you a part of the problem. Shut your ass up. You sat at the table and let him do it, so you a part of the problem. Next, man. You sat at the table and let him do it. You sat at the table and let him do it, so you a part of the problem. You think when they left, they said, Oh, everybody sucked but Rubio? No, they talked about all y'all ass. Hey, hey. So, now you get through it, right? And you're playing. You have a decision to make. Most EuroLeague players not attend college. Was college something you always wanted to do? Or how did that decision come? Yeah, so, I was thinking to like stay in Europe. Maybe go Australia or go college. But, first of all, I just wanted to be more to like US culture. Do more like NBA. Kind of closer to the NBA. The competition is, college is pretty good, because everybody's hungry. Like everybody's trying to reach the same goal. And a lot of talented players there too. And also the like college. College for like studying. That was important for me and my family. So, if I would stay in Europe or if I go to Australia, it's like kind of hard to manage both study and sport. So, that's why I chose college. You sound like me. Study was important when I went to Florida too. Study was super important. No, listen. Honestly though, I have to understand this. Because you have to explain it and kind of break it down to me. Because I spent nine months in Europe. I played in France. And at that time, Tabu Cephalosha was on the junior team. He ended up playing for OKC. He had a decent NBA career. Made some good money for himself. But at that time, he was on the junior team. Around the same age as you, 16. But he knew that I had played for the University of Florida. So, he asked me could I help him get some film over to Coach Donovan and the people at the University of Florida. But at that time, he had already made money playing overseas. So, it was hard to kind of get him in college and different things like that. So, how did you make money when you were playing in Spain? NIL. You make money in Spain, right? NIL? No, you can't. Okay, but there was no NIL then. That's what I'm saying. That's the difference. So, what I'm saying. In Europe, they got NIL? So, he can make money playing pro in Europe? They're basically pros in college now. Before, you lost your college eligibility once you started to be a professional moneymaker. Now, you're a professional moneymaker. He got paid a bunch of money to go to Illinois. I understand. Not a bunch. Now, he's going crazy. Not a bunch. Now, he's going crazy. Did you make money when you played at Barcelona in Spain? No. I'd never signed a professional contract there. I was in a Youth System contract that I had. When I was 15, I signed three. I know both of y'all are white, but my question was for him. I don't know why the f**k you asked. Finish up. Yeah, three plus one years of Youth System. So, basically, I stayed there from 15 to 18. So, I just played basically for the Youth System. Ah, so they had the best of both worlds. They can move you to the pro team, but they never signed you to a contract. So, if they had signed you to a pro contract, would that have made things more difficult for you to go to college? Even with the NIL, would that have made it more difficult? I think, yeah. It would make it more difficult, for sure. Okay. I knew it. I'm coming. Agent. Yeah. It's just they kind of lock you up a little bit sometimes if you sign pro with them. Thank you, Kaz. I appreciate you clearing that up for us. Just got to do a buyout. I think you cleared that up for us. Just do a team buyout. 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