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25th August 2018
10:21pm BST

"I couldn’t dribble the basketball, I couldn’t make a lay-up, I couldn’t do nothing, but they took me under their wing and they’re one of the few clubs that do focus on development so I got better really really quickly. "Within the next year I grew about a foot. That helped a little bit. But they were a huge influence and they gave me a lot of confidence. They basically taught me the game of basketball, which is really good."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4017yu5u9sQ Harris is one of four Irish youngsters making huge strides in US high school basketball, the others being former Dublin Lions teammates Max Amadasun and Kevin Anyanwu, and Silas Sunday (Liffey Celtics). Many of the country's top universities are tracking the power forward and he has whittled down some 30 offers to 10 preferred destinations, saying he hopes to eventually pick two or three and go from there. "In the next year or two," he says, "if I do my job right, I hope to be in the NBA." Check out the interview with Aidan Harris Igiehon here: Video credit: The Echo
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