Dorell Wright
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Dorell Wright is The Navigator because his thirteen-year career unfolds as a sequence of deliberate course corrections. Baseball gave way to basketball, Washington High to Leuzinger, prep school to a draft-day decision his own parents opposed.
“Keith gave me the best nugget I took with me the rest of my career. He said, 'You practice how you play. These are your games.'”
On Keith Atkins' mentorshipundated
“That year I scored more points in my seventh year than I did my first six years. I was that sorry — it was opportunity. A lot of cats are really better than what people think, but they don't never get the opportunity.”
Reflecting on Golden State breakout seasonundated
“I really didn't take basketball serious until eleventh grade. One of forty-one guys to go straight out of high school — that's amazing, and you gotta have some guts to do it.”
On his place in NBA historyundated
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles: “Dorell Wright”
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