LAVINE Zach

General
NBA DRAFT
He was selected as the 13th overall pick by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2014 NBA Draft. (basketball-reference.com, 07 Jul 2021; usab.com, 29 Jun 2021)

FATHER'S INFLUENCE
Once he became interested in basketball as a boy, he would practise with his father in the evenings. "I know it sounds crazy, but he had a plan to try to make me a pro. My dad would go around to the stores all over Seattle and he'd get these cheap swimming pools, the little plastic ones with the fish on them. Then he'd get all these different types of balls, basketballs, soccer balls and I'd have like 50, 60 balls and he'd set up the pools around the backyard and I'd continually shoot, just getting my touch. Like doing the contest. One after another filling them up with balls. I could shoot 50 in a row without having to have a rebounder since my dad was working. Then I'd pick them up and shoot 50 more. Started doing that every day around third or fourth grade." (nba.com, 15 Feb 2020)