Semi Ojeleye, Boston Celtics Forward
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Episode 365
Semi Ojeleye was selected by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2017 NBA Draft (37th overall). He's played in 129 career games for Boston over his two NBA seasons including 23 playoff games. He scored a career high 17 points in a 116-110 win over Washington on April 9, 2019.
Semi came to the Celtics after a college career that saw him begin at Duke University with Coach Mike Krzyzewski and then move on to SMU, where he was named AAC Player of the Year after averaging 18.9 points and 6.8 rebounds for the Mustangs.
Ojeleye's parents emigrated from Nigeria to Kansas and Semi starred at Ottawa High School where he was named Parade Magazine's National Player of the Year in 2013.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Semi about coming to the NBA, adjusting to his role with the Celtics, preparing for a bigger role in 2019-2020, where his faith in Christ took root, living out his walk with God as an NBA player and finding a church home in Boston.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome everyone to Sports Spectrum. I'm Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.6 | It's great to have you joining us today on the show as we approach close to 400 episodes of the |
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| 0:53.2 | We are grateful to you. |
| 0:54.8 | We really are. |
| 0:56.0 | We weren't sure when we started this podcast if there'd be an appetite for this kind |
| 1:00.2 | of content, sports and faith. |
| 1:02.3 | And clearly there's not only an appetite, but there is a desire, both from the listener |
| 1:06.8 | to hear these stories, but from the athletes and the people in the sports world to tell |
| 1:11.8 | their stories, to have a place to talk about their relationship with Jesus Christ, which they |
| 1:17.1 | don't get to talk about a lot, too many places. And so it's an opportunity here for us today |
| 1:22.8 | to bring you another story. And we're going to bring you the story of semi-ogele. |
| 1:27.4 | Semi is a forward with the Boston Celtics. He wears number 36. to bring you another story. And we're going to bring you the story of Semmy Ojelais. |
| 1:30.2 | Semi is a forward with the Boston Celtics. He wears number 37, and he was drafted 37th overall in the second round of the 2017 MBA draft by Boston. |
| 1:41.3 | Sammy played his high school ball in Kansas and then signed on to play at Duke with Coach |
| 1:47.0 | K, Mike Shoshchevsky in 2013. And then it just didn't go the way that obviously one would |
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