Chapter 196 - Draft Night

Draft night had finally come!!

I had on an all-black buŧŧon-up dress shirt with a Versace Baroque Tuxedo Blazer. The drip was on 1000. New York was as busy as ever as we arrived at our destination. 

Photographers were waiting for the players to take pictures of them. I was stopped by many people to get photos and interviews. I felt like a star walking the red carpet. Sandra and Riri were by my side looking like superstars. The photographers went crazy when they saw me with Riri. 

The other players were extremely jealous when they saw that all the crowd had left them to pay more attention to me. I saw D Rose pull up with K Love and went to greet them.

Westbrook came through mean mugging me. I laughed at him and said, there goes the ninja turtle; everyone who heard me busted out laughing. He ignored me and left to do an interview.

"Espn Kevin here with Eazy, the number one draft pick; I have a few questions for you before the event starts, how you are feeling today"?

I had been pulled aside by ESPN, so I definitely couldn't ignore that, I started answering his questions. "Thank you, Kevin, for having me here; I feel great today; I'm finally going to achieve my dreams that I had set out since I was at a young age, I promised my mother that I would go into the NBA, and I finally achieved it even though she's not with us right now, I will be still able to hold the promise I made. May her soul rest in peace".

Kevin stumbled a little bit before he said, "wow, I never knew that your mother had passed away at such a young age too. I'm impressed you're able to get this far anyway. My next question is everybody was wondering how you were able to get into the Olympics even though you weren't in the NBA, yet playing for the first time team Nigeria, but you're not even from Nigeria from what I heard, how are you able to connect the dots and get into such a team and play in the Olympics. 

Even a few veteran NBA stars weren't able to do what you did. You have accomplished an incredible feat and even doing that you went undefeated until you met up against Team USA playing against the greatest and future Hall of Famers, you were going toe to toe with them almost winning the game too which is a crazy feat for any rookie, tell me how you felt going into this?".Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click <a href="#!!!_12675490905537405/draft-night_52411116361410305">#!!!_12675490905537405/draft-night_52411116361410305</a> for visiting.

Damn, this man just asked me like three questions, and I didn't even see him take a breath. Those guys on ESPN must be very professional; I thought of what to say before answering these questions. 

"Thanks, Kev, for the recognition, as for team Nigeria. They're great. It wasn't just me that won those games but the whole team. It was a team effort. How I met them, it was kind of a random encounter. I was visiting the country and was able to connect with some high end people, and the rest is history. I can't go into details, but they saw how I played and recognized my talents, so they recruited me on to their team and asked me to play in their upcoming Olympics games.

Of course, I had to prove myself to be there. The match against Team USA made me learn a lot about myself and where I needed to improve. Hopefully, I'll be playing with one of those Superstars one day, but who knows how the future will be, tonight we shall find out where I will land".

Kevin nodded his head in approval, "okay Eazy, one more question for you,

Kobe praised you during the Olympics interview. I wonder if you saw that and do you think you can take Kobe on in a one versus one game"?

I was a little shocked that he had asked me that question, but I smirked and said, "of course, I think I can take on any player in this league one-on-one and come up on top, and I didn't see that Koby had praised me during the Olympics, but I know that he respects my game because I was able to give him a hard time during our last encounter and especially as a rookie. If that's all I shall be going now thank you, Kevin, for the great interview and hope to see you again in the future".

I turned around and left with Riri and Sandra by my side. I was surprised they didn't ask anything about those two, but I felt pretty good having two beautiful ladies by my side. Some of the other players looked at me with envy, but I'm sure that being in the NBA, they could also do that too.

When I got inside, I was able to find my table that they ȧssigned my family and I to. The only people that were there were Rasta and Isabella. For Rasta to have brought Isabella to the draft night; I was surprised that nobody else came, but I didn't need that many people there.

I asked Rasta why there were only a few people and that's when he told me that everybody else was at home watching it on TV and they didn't want to crowd up the place there's quite a lot of people there.

I laughed and said figures. I went to take a seat and waited for the show to start. My dreams were finally going to come true. I felt a little bit nervous but at the same time excited. Who would have known that I Eazy would be the number one pick on the first round the best rookie in the world and the one with the most potential to be a goat.

Everyone got seated after a few minutes as that show was starting soon. The place got dark and the screen on the stage lit up as it started to show quick previews of the rookies that were going to be drafted today.