Daniel Gibson, remember him? Gibson played for seven seasons, all with the Cleveland Cavaliers, in the NBA from 2006 to 2013, even appearing in the 2007 NBA Finals, back when the team was being carried on a nightly basis by a pre-The Decision LeBron James.

Gibson left the NBA when he was only 26 years old and with plenty of basketball to be played ahead. It’s widely known that the reason Gibson dropped his NBA career was so he could focus on dropping bars, but in an interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, he labeled that as a big misconception.

“Man, there are so many misconceptions when it comes to me not playing basketball. The headline I hated to see, and I even contacted them about it, is ‘Daniel Gibson quits the NBA to rap.’ It’s foolish. You can do both. [Portland Trail Blazers guard] Damian Lillard does it. It’s not something you have to completely stop doing to do the other. That bothers me because that time in my life, it was so difficult. Basketball was what I did. I still was writing music and writing short stories at the same time. But basketball was taken away from me.”

Gibson is sending us mixed signals here. In 2015, he appeared on Power 105's The Breakfast Club radio show in New York City and said to the hosts that he decided to hang up his sneakers because he wants to “start rapping”.

In giving an update about his budding rap career, Daniel Gibson appeared excited in telling Spears of how it’s turning out to be.

“I released a song called ‘Nobody Knows,’ and it kind of describes my transition and the stuff I dealt with weighing basketball and a career in entertainment.”

‘Nobody Knows’ sure sounds like a fitting description of the former Cavs sharpshooter's NBA career if he opted to stick with basketball instead of quitting it at the peak of his youth.

Gibson was taken by Cleveland in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft and had career averages of 7.8 points on a 40.7 3-point shooting percentage in 397 games played.