Earlier this week John Wall won his first ESPY, but did you know who else was there? It was the Gatorade Player of The Year Brandon Knight. It seems Knight is already getting a jump on filling John Wall’s shoes as he took to the red carpet on Wednesday. The popular music channel (that doesn’t play any music) MTV, covered Brandon accepting the Gatorade award and his arrival at the ESPY’s.
Here’s an excerpt from MTV.com…
[QUOTE]Brandon Knight and Chiney Ogwumike were the male and female winners of the 2010 Gatorade Athlete of the Year Award, which they scored at a special luncheon on Wednesday afternoon. They were joined by the other 10 finalists for the prize as well as great stars like Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love and WNBA legend Lisa Leslie.
Knight, a basketball star at Pine Crest High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida who is headed to the University of Kentucky in the fall, joins greats like LeBron James and Greg Oden as the only player to be named Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year twice, which puts him in awfully exclusive company. That doesn’t intimidate Knight — in fact, it empowers him. “I don’t think it’s intimidating,” Knight told MTV News. “I feel like if you do what you’re supposed to do and work hard, then some day you’ll achieve the status they have worked to achieve also. It could be intimidating, but it’s really a motivational thing, to be honest.” Knight, who considers himself a big fan of Drake and a devotee of the Miami Heat, not only put up insane numbers during his high school career (he averaged 32 points and nine rebounds while taking his team to the finals in his senior year) but also managed to maintain a 4.0 GPA and give back to his community through service at school and church.
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