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In this episode, I’m speaking with Mu Okonkwo, former basketball player now immigrant entrepreneur.
One random sunny day in Owerri, Nigeria, Mu’s friends convinced him to follow them to the basketball court. Their pitch? A scout was coming who would take promising prospects to the Ejike Ugboaja annual bootcamp — the biggest basketball camp in Nigeria.
Now, Mu only had eyes for soccer, or football as we call it back in Nigeria.
But a couple of months after that well-timed visit to the basketball court, Mu was actively scheming to move to the United States on a scholarship to play college basketball.
In this conversation, we chat about:
Forging his Dad’s signature so the scout could formally keep working with him to secure his college scholarship
Getting to the United States and discovering that his little knowledge of basketball was useless
Going pro in 2019
Adjusting to the social nuances of the American culture, and more.
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