Spencer Dinwiddie still thinks about high school. As a student at William Howard Taft in Los Angeles, the Dallas Mavericks guard had the grades to eventually...
As a student at William Howard Taft in Los Angeles, the Dallas Mavericks guard had the grades to eventually get an offer to play at Harvard, probably to the delight of his USC professor mother.At 5-7 and 117 pounds, a freshman Dinwiddie realized he was no longer on the neighborhood basketball court. This was LA, one of the premiere hubs for top recruits, but he didn’t let that discourage him.
“Just stick with it. Somebody’s going to see,” he recently said during teammate Theo Pinson’s “Run Your Race” podcast while recalling what his LA friends would tell him. “There’s going to be something that breaks for you.” After his first few games as a Buffalo, coaches pulled Dinwiddie aside to discuss his poor play. They wouldn’t bench him because he was their guy, as Dinwiddie predicted, but they did need him to improve.
Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and DeAndre Jordan joined the Nets during the 2019 offseason. Durant was injured, but other new additions changed the lineup and placed Dinwiddie into a reserve role, until Irving injured his shoulder. The Nets were the sixth seed in the playoffs that season, even with Irving and Durant out.
He still thinks about how when he arrived, as Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd told the team to give him the ball if Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson weren’t playing. Dinwiddie starred during the Mavericks’ playoff run last season, scoring 30 points in Game 7 against the Phoenix Suns to help the team advance to the Western Conference finals.“Spencer’s a great player,” Mavericks center Dwight Powell said during a media session earlier in training camp.
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