THESE MOMENTS just keep arriving. Immanuel Quickley is conscious of not getting complacent, of not allowing himself to feel settled in the NBA, not now as a rookie and maybe not ever. But if he were ever tempted to relax, to take any of this for granted even for a second, these moments won’t let him. They keep coming, reminders of a thing he should perhaps be too cool to acknowledge: Dude is living his dream. He’s 21 years old, three years out of high school and he’s playing meaningful minutes in the NBA.
The moments remind him that all of this is real. And some moments are more real than others.
“Against Brooklyn…I’d never got the chance to see KD in person, and that was crazy,” Quickley says over a recent Zoom call. “He’s taller than Mitchell Robinson and can just pull up over anybody. Some of the moves he made, He hit a shot on me, and I couldn’t do nothin’ about it. I just went down the court and I was like, ”
