Eesti korvpallur Henri Veesaar r\u00e4\u00e4kis USA meediale, et otsus p\u00fcrgida NBA-sse ei s\u00f5ltunud rahast ning usub, et praegu on tema jaoks \u00f5ige aeg astuda karj\u00e4\u00e4ris samm k\u00f5rgemale.<\/p>\n
22-aastane ja 213 sentimeetri pikkune Veesaar pani aprilli l\u00f5pus oma nime kirja NBA talendikorjesse ehk\u00a0draft’i. Alates p\u00fchap\u00e4evast on ta veetnud oma p\u00e4evad Chicagos, kus tema ja veel 72 andekat korvpallurit n\u00e4itavad oma oskusi ja m\u00f5\u00f5tmeid NBA klubidele.<\/p>\n
Veesaarel oli v\u00f5imalus j\u00e4\u00e4da veel \u00fcheks hooajaks NCAA-sse, kuid \u00fctles kolmap\u00e4eval ESPN-ile, et arutas oma tulevikuplaane North Carolina uue peatreeneri Michael Malone’iga ja otsustas ikkagi osaleda juunikuu l\u00f5pus toimuvas draft’is. “Ma j\u00e4\u00e4n kindlasti draft’i. See otsus oli sajaprotsendiliselt minu. Olen kindel, et see on \u00f5ige samm,” s\u00f5nas ta.<\/p>\n
Erinevad USA v\u00e4ljaanded on oma draft’i eelvaadetes ennustanud eestlase maandumispaigaks esimese ringi l\u00f5ppu. CBS Sports seostab teda Atlanta Hawksiga (23. valik), ESPN Los Angeles Lakersiga (25. valik), NBA Draft Room Boston Celticsiga (27. valik) ning Bleacher Report Minnesota Timberwolvesiga (28. valik).<\/p>\n
“Raha teenimine on oluline osa elust. See avab uksi ja v\u00f5imaldab pere eest hoolt kanda, aga ma ei ole kunagi langetanud otsuseid rahast l\u00e4htudes. Kui l\u00e4ksin 15-aastasena Madridi Reali akadeemiasse, siis oleksin v\u00f5inud rohkem raha k\u00fcsida, kuid ma ei teinud seda. Minu suurem siht oli j\u00f5uda NCAA-sse. \u00dclikooli valides ma ka ei l\u00e4htunud sellest, kes k\u00f5ige suurema summa pakub mulle, vaid valisin ikkagi selle j\u00e4rgi, kus oli mul v\u00f5imalik k\u00f5ige paremini areneda,” selgitas Veesaar.<\/p>\n
Ta m\u00e4rkis, et on valmis end NBA-s proovile panema nii keskm\u00e4ngija kui ka suure \u00e4\u00e4re positsioonil. “Minu positsioon s\u00f5ltub sellest, milline on klubi m\u00e4ngustiil. Olen v\u00e4ga mitmek\u00fclgne m\u00e4ngija, kes saab hakkama m\u00f5lemal positsioonil.”<\/p>\n
Veesaar r\u00e4\u00e4kis veel, et on NBA m\u00e4ngijatest \u00fcritanud \u00f5ppida Karl-Anthony Townsilt, Isaiah Hartensteinilt, Domantas Saboniselt, Nikola Jokicilt ja Blake Griffinilt. “Igalt NBA m\u00e4ngijalt on v\u00f5imalik midagi \u00f5ppida. Mulle endale tundub, et sarnanen k\u00f5ige rohkem Hartensteiniga, kes on r\u00fcnnakul \u00fchendav j\u00f5ud ja isetu m\u00e4ngija,” selgitas Veesaar.<\/p>\n
NBA\u00a0draft\u00a0algab Eesti aja j\u00e4rgi \u00f6\u00f6sel vastu 24. juunit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eesti korvpallur Henri Veesaar r\u00e4\u00e4kis USA meediale, et otsus p\u00fcrgida NBA-sse ei s\u00f5ltunud rahast ning usub, et praegu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[26,27,37,33,35,34,36,31,32,21,14599,15438,28,29,95,41945,19,25,23,24,22,20,30,92,93,94],"class_list":{"0":"post-177728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maailm","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-ee","11":"tag-eesti","12":"tag-eesti-keel","13":"tag-estonia","14":"tag-estonian","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-henri-veesaar","19":"tag-korvpalliliiga-nba","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-maailm","23":"tag-nba-draft","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-populaarseimad-lood","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-uldised-uudised","29":"tag-uudised","30":"tag-viimased-uudised","31":"tag-world","32":"tag-world-news","33":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ee\/116571934827495366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}