Saturday, May 25, 2013

ECSU Sharpless takes talents to NBA scouts

BROOKLYN, New York  --  From competing on area barnstorming tours with ACC players to highlight dunks posted on YouTube, Angelo Sharpless might have already arrived in many people’s eyes.

But arriving at his first-ever NBA Draft combine, held at Brooklyn on Wednesday, there was little fanfare for Elizabeth City State’s all-everything college basketball star.

Even Sharpless’ school was only known as ‘Elizabeth’ to NBA scouts.
 


“I always had a chip on my shoulder in where I believe I belong on that stage,” Sharpless said. “I’m representing the guys that are Division II, the CIAA, the guys from Elizabeth City, and people that don’t get the exposure coming from small towns.”

The obscurity that follows the CIAA Player of the Year on such a high stage hasn’t slowed Sharpless on the road to a potential professional basketball career, one he hopes will include 
being selected in the June 27 NBA Draft, also being held by the Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center.

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