Jason Preston | From Averaging 2 Points in High School to LA Clippers NBA Draft Pick
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
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🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today Jon is joined by Jason Preston. When this interview was recorded Jason was preparing for the NBA draft. Since the recording he has now been drafted by the LA Clippers! It's a really insightful look at Jason's rise, how's he's overcome adversity and what drives him to success. His story is amazing and will definitely inspire you and remind you that anything is possible if you keep striving.
- Averaged 2 PPG in high school.
- Ran on the "C" team in prep school without any college offers from any level.
- Makes his own highlight tape and posts it on Twitter. + Offered by OU.
- Scores 31 points against #8 Illinois.
- Drafted by NBA's LA Clippers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to John Gordon's Positive University Podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Daniel Decker, the co-host of the show, and today John is joined by Jason Preston. |
| 0:09.5 | While this interview was originally recorded when Jason was prepping for the NBA draft, |
| 0:14.3 | since the recording he has now been drafted by the LA Clippers. |
| 0:17.3 | It's a really insightful look at Jason's rise, how he's overcome adversity to get where |
| 0:22.0 | he's at and achieve success, his story is super amazing and will definitely inspire you |
| 0:26.8 | and remind you that anything is possible if you keep striving. |
| 0:30.3 | Now, our featured resource today is Daily Positive. |
| 0:33.0 | It's a free daily email with a short encouraging message to help you win the day. |
| 0:37.5 | You can sign up for free at dailypositive.com. |
| 0:40.7 | All right, let's dive right in and join John and Jason. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You, and today my guest is Jason Preston. Jason, how you doing? |
| 0:51.6 | I'm doing great. How are you? Pleasure to have. Pleasure to be here. |
| 0:54.5 | Did I pronounce your last name right? |
| 0:56.5 | Jason Preston, yes sir. |
| 0:58.4 | Yes, it's a name that people are going to be hearing more and more about |
| 1:02.4 | you are right now training for the NBA draft. |
| 1:04.9 | Talk about that. Where are you training right now and how's it going? |
| 1:08.9 | Right now I'm up in New York. |
| 1:10.6 | It's been a great interesting process. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, just, you know, just living up here too. |
| 1:15.7 | It's New York's a completely different city than all of the others I've been at. |
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