Rodney Pryor - NBA G League Player

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🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Episode 439

Rodney Pryor plays professional basketball in the NBA's G League with the Salt Lake City Stars. He played his college basketball at Robert Morris, where he helped his squad to an NCAA tournament berth in 2015. In 2016-17, he transferred to Georgetown, where he led the team in scoring (18.0 ppg) and started all 32 games for the Hoyas.

In 2017, after not getting selected in the NBA Draft, he decided to continue his pro basketball career and is currently in his third season in the NBA's G League.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Rodney about his basketball journey and his desire to achieve his dream of playing in the NBA. Rodney's passionate about his faith in Christ and shares with us his testimony and why he believes the platform that he has been given is to glorify the Lord.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.0	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, everybody. I'm Jason Romano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum, everybody.
0:21.9	I'm Jason Romano.
0:22.9	Great to have you joining us here today on the show.
0:25.8	Excited to bring you our conversation with Rodney Pryor.
0:29.2	He is an NBA G League player with the Salt Lake City Stars.
0:34.9	And this is a story of a guy who took a lot of twists and turns in his journey,
0:39.5	his basketball journey, going from Juko schools and injuries and twists and turns and
0:45.1	setbacks all the way to Robert Morris to play D1 basketball, being really good there,
0:51.0	and then playing a year with Georgetown and the Hoyas averaging 18 points and
0:55.7	five rebounds and his only season with Georgetown and then going undrafted and coming out of
1:02.3	college and trying to pursue that MBA dream. This is Rodney Pryor's story. It's a good one. And Rodney also is a preacher. And he's been
1:13.7	preaching and sharing and a lot of different opportunities to talk about what God has done in his
1:18.2	life. He's also getting married soon and living that life as an NBA G League player. He talks
1:24.5	about backsliding from God coming back, the temptations that you face as a
1:28.4	professional athlete. I really liked our conversation. This is Rodney Pryor here on Sports
1:33.6	Spectrum. Take a listen. Rodney, welcome to Sports Spectrum. Hello, man. Thanks for having
1:42.4	you. I'm so excited and pumped to be on this. Me too. Glad that we were able to connect. I love what you stand for. Obviously, we're the intersection of sports and faith, and I know that that's central to who you are. Let's start first, though, with right now. As we're taping this, it's at the very end of 2019. You're in the G-League right now.
2:01.2	And who knows, by the time we air this, maybe you get the call up.
2:03.6	You just never know.
2:04.5	But the NBA is G-League with the Salt Lake City Star.
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