The most unlikely NBA journey you've NEVER heard about
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Torrey Craig was injured in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. It's a big blow for the Suns after the 30 year old carved out a niche and was in the Suns' rotation. It's a long way from where he started as the biggest underdog NBA story you've probably never heard.
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Wow that’s crazy about his mom. I respect Torrey for pushing through that.
100%
@@AMHoops another great featured friday video Casey!
The kind of guy you can not help but root for.
The first minute is already incredible
Yeah - crazy upbringing, super happy for his career.
I remember watching him in Australia and he was a defensive beast one of the beat defenders I’ve seen. Salute to him for getting the NBA ring
I love TC as a Nuggets fan. I'd be happy to see him win a chip
This didnt age well
@@jayus2033 wdym
He has a ring. Bucs/Suns this season
@@brandonmcdonough2320 huh?
@@morgan.l.01 maybe because he was a former buck and now is a sun so guaranteed ring whoever wins?
I'm from Brisbane Australia and I actually work with the Bullets Team, and I witnessed this man's work ethic, patience, perseverance and dedication towards the game, and most of all his calm and down to earth demeanour. I salute this man! All the best TC!
This is an amazing story, and well told. He deserves that ring!
TC is the man i love that guy what a inspiration to everyone who thinks persistance hard work and dedication dont get you where you want to be!
He literally had a 2k mycareer storyline for a real life career
Did he drop 135 pts and i missed it again?
incredible story and great video. i saw where he went to college on basketball reference this morning actually and thought to myself how’d torey get to the nba?
Featured Friday's always a classic video @A.M. Hoops. Torrey Craig has a great impact on this years Phoenix Suns. Coach Mont. when has a fully healthy roster usually runs a 9 man rotation and Torrey Craig is part of that. Craig is most known for his defense, rebounding, and Hustle when it comes to going after the ball. He also can hit the 3 and score around the bucket. Casey that was an amazing video my guy, every video blows my mind bc they get better and better or the video is nothing but the best like the rest of your videos. Now after watching this video I can see where Torrey Craig gets his motivation from. Im rooting for the Suns, so I hope he gets this chip and ring this year with the Phoenix Suns, well deserved. Well he gets a ring either way 😂 bc he played with the Milwaukee Bucks this season, that is something I didn't know. It should feel so good winning the NBA Finals against the team that gave you away for nothing, just cash. Just think if the Bucks would have kept Craig, he would have helped the Bucks just as much as he helped Denver and now the Suns. Man that defense on the Bucks with Giannis, Holiday, Tucker and Craig SMH what were the Milwaukee Bucks thinking seriously. You are 100% correct he can guard 1-5 an attacks the glass like a beast. No more doubt for Craig 💯. Thanks Casey for another special featured Friday. @A.M. Hoops on another level when it comes to NBA youtube videos. Goat 🐐 Status!!!
Hey Casey, just a slight correction, the first team he played for in Australia was Cairns in the NBL (same league as Lamelo Ball played in) not Adelaide I believe. The head coach there at the time was Aaron Fearne if I remember correctly. I am a Brisbane Bullets season ticket holder since 1988 and Torey was great on our team! He won the league’s defensive player of the year during his stint with the Bullets and was great at the offensive end too, unselfish, high IQ. In our league it is great when ‘Imports’ (the league restricts the number of overseas players who can play) come in a play at both ends. It always happens now, but when the league was a little younger, Americans tended to come in and just play offence. Torey was legit 2-way guy in our league and we are always proud to see him on the biggest stage. Such a feel good story for someone who deserves all the success in the world.
Loved having you in Australia TC, was always a cut above our local talent,and just had to get to the NBA
Good story to post a video about. Much respect to this channel
Great content, needed to hear this dudes journey. Keep Ballin Torrey!
And he made it now he's a champion
I loved torrey since i found out about him in that lakers-nuggets series, man that guy is tough
He played in Australia and good for him . The NBL in Australia is the best competition outside of the NBA
Better than the Euroleague?
@@HavoXtreme I believe so
@@peternut358 Wow, you should seriously watch Euroleague then, especially the Fibal Fours. This is where all the European NBA Superstars come from and players not good enough to play in the NBA but too good for G-League are also here. Tactics matter the most here and If you don’t play good defense you get cut. The intensity resembles the likes of ECF/WCF and the Finals and usually a Euroleague Finalist is good enough to make the Playoffs in the NBA albeit can barely get a 7th or 8th seed. Ex: 2018 Real Madrid with Luka Doncic and 2017 Fenerbahçe with a lineup of futere amd former NBA players such as Bogdan Bogdanovich,Jan Vesely,Ekpe Udoh and more
@@HavoXtreme plenty of Americans playing in the NBL. Brice Cotton would cook any PG in the Euroleague
@@peternut358 Umm, I just talked about Luka Doncic and this year the Euroleague is also sending two lottery picks to the NBA draft. I will watch Bryce as well but please look into Euroleague, I think you are underestimating them, aldo Look out for Shane Larkin, he has a similar physique and size compared to Bryce. Shane is super-shifty and is a 3-point deadeye as well. Extra: Watched his MVP season highlights amd I was right, he is quite literally the Same with Shane Larkin. I invite you to do the same and watch Shane. Funnily enough they entered the same draft and are the same age+ both are 6ft with similar builds amd skillsets
Wow awesome vid learned alot and loved it
LETS GO TORREY. LUV FROM NUGGETS FAN
Yes!! Easy to root for this guy, even if he's on a different team!
Awesome video. I look forward to feature Fridays every week. Nice change of pace from trade rumors, analysis etc...
Torrey Craig has what I'm told is a Bone Contusion on the inner knee. MRI is clean and the Suns are optimistic he'll be available for Sundays game with the extra day's rest. We might have dodged a bullet on this one. Very optimistic news from my contacts!
Yeah that injury is not that bad. CP3 also had a shoulder contusion against the Lakers but was able to come back
Very inspiring story...
WOW!!!!!..... SALUTE TO U TORREY CRAIG!!!!!..... WELCOME BACK TO SUNS!!!!!..... GO GET THAT RING MAN!!!!!
Great video
what a lesson on life
I love your vids
Anderson Varejao & Dion Waiter & now Torrey Craig being the only players that i know who is a champion before the nba finals even start🔥
Great story man
Needed to
Add that he played on the New Zealand NBL too between his Aussie stint and got MVP and won a chip with Wellington Saints
Such a great story...my man T-Craig was too legit to quit! Hopefully he can play in another NBA finals game soon...$$$$
Eric Bledsoe punching in the air rn
Salute this man
I remember watching him in the nbl
What an inspiration. I only knew him for my fantasy league before but damn. I'm a big fan now.
let’s go Suns ☄️☄️☄️
Really fit AK player profile
🔥🔥🔥
From Australia, Torrey Craig never played for the Gold Coast where I was a season ticket holder. Brisbane Bullets were his only Queensland team. Also the Gold Coast team at the time when Craig was in the league was the "Gold Coast Blaze". the "Rollers" were in the NBL from 1991 to 1996, long before Craig played.
He played for taipans
The Gold Coast Rollers team he is referring to is the QBL (now NBL1 North) team. He played for them in 2017.
Great Video!!!
Facundo Campazzo next please 🏀👍🏽👊🏽
And the Bulls just got him. Let's go
Did that Australian coach ever coach Ben Simmons? Great defense take 5 or less shots a game,this is starting to sound very familiar!
Seriously awesome story and I hate that the Nuggets didn't bring him back after last season they could have really used him this year!
Aaron Fearne is his name. I don't think he ever coached ben in the Juniors but i'm not 100% sure. He's now an assistant at University of North Carolina At Charlotte.
I met him in a mall in the golf coast, he’s a nice dude!
nice video!
Thanks CJ!
@@AMHoops Thanks A.M hoops
CHICAGO! fits right in
Nice work 🎆
Motivation
💪🏾💪🏾 yes sir lil bro.
Great content bro..supporting yu all the way from Zimbabwe...wat is the name of the song tt plays on 2.30🙏
What a story maaaaaaaaate
If this guy plays for your team z you can't help but like him
Awesome video; start with a little and then make it to a possible Ship!
Torrey Craig is the most underrated player in the league.
Wow that is a rough journey.
Damn, as a bucks fan, I was happy when we got Torrey and I loved him he should’ve gotten more minutes and I was sad when we traded him
Dude those letters almost made me cry
I hope he gets a championship with Phoenix , I watched him play in the NBL, it's great to watch a guy play local then have success in the NBA. Go Suns
I used to watch his 8th grade games when I saw him in school. He didn’t live near anyone so we really didn’t see him practice at all which made us scared.
I’m glad he’s in the NBA, I knew he was gifted when he nailed 3 pointers over 10 years ago
nice video
Didn’t he played for cairns NOT Adelaide?
Dang it Torrey we needed your defense on the Nuggets 🥺
Adelaide? Dude played for Cairns. Aaron Fearne deserves a lot of credit for recruiting and developing players. He seems to have changed him to the guy got into the NBA. And for his many faults as a coach. Fearne has had a larger hand in a other guys getting to the NBA too.
Welcome to the Bulls.
this was a W
That why i wnat to be oart him in utah jazz
Welcome to the Pacers
Bro this is my classmate at SC Upstate. He said he was gonna make it
Welcome to the Indiana Pacers my Brother
Pacers are going for defensive team of the year.
I genuinely thought that was Bradley Beal in the thumbnail
can you do a what happened to david lee since he just like vanished or something after averaging 20 a game for several seasons and played well during 2015 before he got hurt and then nothing after it seems like to me I would love to learn about his story
Jaylen Brown next video A.M Hoops
please do washington wizards offseason please
When are you going to show the Jazz offseason video?
Do carmelo Anthony next
Do jimmy butler life story so tragic
Been done a lot...I usually try to find stories that haven't been told.
@@AMHoops thank you for responding
16 years in prison. Not jail.
How old was he when he made it to summer league?
Utah jazz off-season plan
Coming soon.
I remember I hit a couple shots on him and he said he was still gonna make the league if he had to go oveeseas
3:52 He was actually in Cairns Taipans. Cairns is in Queensland State, the Northeast. Adelaide is in South Australia. You're WAY off, there.
4:11 Brisbane is the state capital of Queensland.
Haha lol
My cousin worked hard and went and got it.
Lmao he didn’t play for Adelaide, he played for Cairns
NBL is legit
I’m in 8th grade right now
If the Bucks still had TC, they wouldn’t have to play so many mediocre Teague / Forbes minutes and their series would be looking a lot different imo
I’m still wrapping my head around on how MIL gave him up to PHX for some change hmm
You mean no change?
Literally Cam Payne and Torrey Craig had the biggest comeback in the Suns 😂 NBA fans don’t know that the Suns roster were full of G-league players but the Suns developed them like Payne etc. It doesn’t matter if you’re drafted or undrafted if you can play well you’re team needed the most
Whatever the team win the Champ this year, he will get the ring XD
He's on my team in 2k
basketball is cool
Yes cat...yes.
😂😂😂
and no who ever wins he gets a ring
Nigga sound like me fr
Torrey Craig AKA the new dion waiters
Or mj
@@jayus2033 I said that because Torrey is getting a ring either way like dion last year.
1:05
There's nothing wrong with the intro.
@@AMHoops watch 1:00 - 1:07 and you’ll see it, if you still can’t see it, then watch it in 0.25 slow mo
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I woulda let go of Cunningham and kept him
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