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BOSTON — Growing up in New Castle and playing basketball at Phillips Exeter Academy, Duncan Robinson said his earliest memories and dreams of playing in the NBA level didn’t necessarily include him playing for the Boston Celtics.
Instead, Robinson, now in his fifth season with the Miami Heat, said he looked up to certain players. Players like Ray Allen and Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics during their championship run in 2008, as well as other NBA greats, such as Allen Iverson and the late Kobe Bryant.
“I don’t know that it was with a particular team, but just growing up being a fan of basketball and really starting to watch and follow the NBA, just having players and trying to emulate them in the backyard and at the park and all that sort of stuff,” Robinson said.
The 29-year-old spoke after Thursday’s morning shootaround at TD Garden hours before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics.
“Memories go back to when I first started playing at 8, 9, 10 years old,” he said.
Miami Heat’s Duncan Robinson, right, goes around Boston’s Jaylen Brown as teammate Bam Adebayo sets a screen during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals last Friday at TD Garden.
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Robinson, who went undrafted coming out of the University of Michigan in 2018, was signed as a free agent that summer by Miami, one of Boston’s biggest rivals.
Since then, Robinson has broken numerous franchise records with the Heat. In Sunday’s Game 3 win over the Celtics, he passed LeBron James for most 3-pointers made by a Heat player in the playoffs. Robinson went 5 for 7 from 3-point territory and finished with 22 points in 24 minutes off the bench. He now has 124 career 3-pointers in 53 playoff games.
Miami’s Duncan Robinson goes up for a layup during pre-game warm-ups prior to last Friday’s Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.
Playing for a rival team, a team that has shared many Eastern Conference battles with the…
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Author : Portsmouth Herald
Publish date : 2023-05-25 18:02:59
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