{"id":35827,"date":"2021-03-01T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.demo.olimpia.iquii.info\/hes-an-artist-and-a-basketball-high-flying-guy-now-evans-wants-to-bring-energy-to-the-table-for-olimpia\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:55:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:55:50","slug":"hes-an-artist-and-a-basketball-high-flying-guy-now-evans-wants-to-bring-energy-to-the-table-for-olimpia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olimpiamilano.com\/en\/hes-an-artist-and-a-basketball-high-flying-guy-now-evans-wants-to-bring-energy-to-the-table-for-olimpia\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s an artist and a basketball high-flying guy, now Evans wants to bring energy to the table for Olimpia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Evans’ great idea in 2013 was to combine his great passions, mix them and take them to the most glittering of the stage, that of the 2013 NBA All-Star Game.<\/strong> A year earlier he had won the dunk contest by jumping over his teammate with the Utah Jazz, Gordon Hayward, and dunking two basketballs at the same time. Previously, there had been players capable of dunking two balls or jumping over a teammate. But the two things together had never been done before by anyone. In 2013 Evans decided to jump over his effigy, the caricature that he himself had painted. Basketball and art. These are his two passions. \u201cA couple of Utah Jazz staff members helped me out, it was a privilege to showcase my art. It wasn’t the best paint I’ve ever done, but being able to showcase on that stage that I was an artist was important.”<\/p>\n

When he played at Western Kentucky, a mid-major college that did not guarantee the necessary exposure, according to his then coach Darrin Horn no one thought Jeremy Evans could become an NBA player except … Jeremy Evans. After four years with the Hilltoppers, Evans had become the college\u2019s all-time best shot-blocker, but he was at most a 10-point-per-game scorer in his senior year. Evans was instead chosen in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft by Utah, he was 55th<\/sup> player selected. “Actually, since I was a child, I have seen myself playing in the NBA, especially for how my mother has given me confidence in my abilities, so from the first day I always believed that I would make it. When I was chosen, wow, words cannot explain what I felt. Everyone grows up waiting for that moment, it was like a dream come true.”<\/p>\n