![]() ![]() ![]() How would you describe last season for you personally and the team? They should have actually won (against Golden State) and gotten to the Finals, but it’s tough now that they lost Kevin Durant. I was happy for him, they had a good year. Yeah that was weird seeing coach on the NBA sideline, not being the Gator coach. Was it weird watching your former college coach Billy Donovan coach in the NBA this season? I talked to Jo through the whole thing, I knew he was going to New York before the whole thing happened just because he loves home, he’s from New York so he couldn’t wait to go back home and it worked out perfectly because Derrick Rose got traded there and that’s one of his good friends. I actually met with Al (Horford) during his free agency period because we were trying to get him (to come to Houston). How much contact did you have with them during that time? They both left their respective teams, Atlanta and Chicago after spending their whole career there. Your teammates at the University of Florida, Al Horford, and Joakim Noah were in the news a lot during free agency. That’s what it’s all about, business is good so the money is good. It was 10 shocking! It was shocking, some guys got contracts that you wouldn’t expect, but I’m happy for those guys. On a scale of 1-to-10 how shocking was the free agency period with all of those huge contracts? I’ve been in quite a few places, but it’s been a great journey. Coming from Portland, a small town…now I’m in Houston. I’m just blessed to be in the NBA for 10 years and hopefully I can make it a few more years. It seems like I was in high school yesterday. Can you believe it’s about to be your 10th season in the NBA already? Next year will be your 10th season in the NBA. It’s cool now to come back and do my own camp. I used to come to the Portland High School camp, so those were my days attending the PHS Camps. I never met an NBA player until I got to my senior year in high school. Man, I’m getting old! But it’s good just to see the faces and see the kids.ĭid you go to any camps run by NBA players when you were a kid? It’s always good to see a bunch of faces, then I see faces of kids I went to school with, and now their kids are now seven, eight years old (attending my camp). This year, there were more than 250 campers, what does that mean to you? If you’re having fun playing basketball, that’s what it’s all about. It’s more about the fundamentals and I tell them to have fun. This is fun, just seeing the kids grow up and seeing some kids that have been coming since they were five or six years old and now they’re in the fifth grade, it’s cool to see. But there is nothing like coming home and doing this camp. The one in Gainesville, I love doing that camp, it’s been eight years now, we raise money for diabetes, it’s a good camp. Is there a difference between this camp and the one you host in Gainesville, Fla.? ![]() It's fun to come and do this camp, but, anytime I come home it's always good. When I come to Portland and see everybody, it's fun. The former Panther took time between the camp's morning and afternoon session to talk about being back home, NBA free agency, and where he fits in with the Houston Rockets. On July 16, he was back at his old stomping grounds to hold his eighth annual Corey Brewer Portland, TN Basketball Camp. NBA status and past accomplishments aside, Brewer often returns to the place where it all started – Portland High School. PORTLAND - A McDonald's High School All-American, two-time NCAA Champion at the University of Florida, and 2011 NBA Champion with the Dallas Mavericks.That is Corey Brewer's resume as an NBA veteran playing with the Houston Rockets. ![]()
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