Sloane Knows NEXT - Nik Khamenia on Duke Basketball, Spurs & Wemby, AAU lessons, NBA role models
The Draymond Green Show with Baron Davis
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Welcome to another episode of SloaneKnows: NEXT, where Sloane speaks with the future NBA stars of tomorrow. Nikolas Khamenia is a Duke Basketball commit, who’s a 2025 top-five recruit from the state of California. With offers from UCLA, North Carolina, Gonzaga among other schools, Nik talks about his intention to play for Duke, his San Antonio Spurs fandom, his thoughts on Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul, what he’s learned from years on the AAU circuit, who he models his own hoops game after, and much more. #Volume #Draymond
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| 0:00.0 | The volume. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, I'm Sloan, and this is Sloan knows next. |
| 0:13.0 | We sit down with the future stars of tomorrow. |
| 0:16.0 | Today's guest is Nick Kamenya, a four-star recruit who recently just committed to Duke University. |
| 0:21.8 | His journey of winning back-to-back state titles with Harvard Westlake |
| 0:24.7 | to winning a gold medal with Team USA, |
| 0:27.2 | and his dreams of playing in the NBA is a story you won't want to miss. |
| 0:35.3 | All right, Nick, so this is an episode of Sloan knows next. |
| 0:39.9 | And for those who haven't gotten the privilege to know a little bit about your game yet, |
| 0:44.5 | would you mind telling us your age, your name, where you play basketball, |
| 0:48.9 | and where you're going to play in college? |
| 0:50.9 | I'm Nick Kamenya. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm 17 years old. |
| 0:54.0 | Class 2025. I go to Harvard Westlake |
| 0:55.7 | and next year I'll be at Duke. Congrats. That's big time. Nick just committed. It's very exciting. |
| 1:00.4 | It's really cool to have him on. How old were you when you started to play basketball? |
| 1:05.0 | Really, ever since I can remember, just going to my dad's practices. So shoot. I think i really started picking it up when i was five |
| 1:13.0 | six okay just dribbling around shooting yeah were you always taller than the other kids yeah all the |
| 1:18.6 | time all the time how tall is your dad six eight and your mom six foot wow so you have tall jeans and |
| 1:24.7 | i'm assuming you guys are a basketball family. Yeah, yeah. Both my parents play. |
| 1:27.7 | Okay. In college? |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah. My mom went to a juco in Florida and my dad played at George Washington. |
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