According to top 2018 NBA Draft prospect Lonnie Walker, Bruce Lee is a bit more unstoppable than famed Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan.
Everyone just relax. Lonnie Walker is not saying Bruce Lee would have more rings with the Bulls or anything. Simply that he enjoyed Lee as a child and believes him to be more iconic in terms relative to, well, just about everything outside of basketball.
From a really cool Q&A with ESPN, which you should read in full:
Chris Haynes: What is your Bruce Lee fascination?
Lonnie Walker: Bruce Lee is just one of those old, famous karate guys that I used to hear around my house every day because my parents, my mom, my father — basically my whole family — watched it. So I really started to think he was one of the coldest dudes. So yeah, just watching him and how my dad used to, whenever he would say a quote, my dad would always pause the movie and explain it. There was always just something deep about it, and ever since then, I was like, this guy is, he's unstoppable.
CH: More unstoppable than Jordan, huh? Bruce Lee was the icon?
LW: Yeah, absolutely.
It's kind of like my alter ego when I played on the court, the more enhanced me. When people see me, it would be like, ‘Oh, that's Bruce Lee on the court.' So I started to just use it as a Twitter name for a little bit.
Walker, a somewhat under-the-radar prospect who can go anywhere from nine through 19, is an athletic guard who played his college ball with the Miami Hurricanes.
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