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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Donte DiVincenzo is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats, where he won national championships in 2016 and 2018. Selected with the 17th overall pick by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2018 NBA draft, DiVencenzo won his first championship with the Bucks in 2021, before being traded to the Sacramento Kings the following season.
One goal I want to accomplish is I want to be known as the hardest-working guy on the team my rookie year.
I'm a lot more recognizable now. I used to be able to go to the mall or the movies. Now I can't really do that because people come up to me all the time. But it's a good problem to have.
My confidence level is, I think I can be a first-round pick; I think I can be a professional basketball player.
Everywhere I've gone, basketball-wise, I've been the underdog and underrated guy.
I really pride myself on trying to be versatile.
A lot of guys kind of get complacent with how they do in one game, but I just want to compete. So every game I play in, it's a brand new beginning for me.
I try to use my athleticism and my strength to be able to guard bigger guys, and being able to guard bigger guys is going to get me more minutes on the floor.
Before the combine, there were a lot of questions about whether I could guard multiple positions.
I am who I am, and I'm not trying to act a certain way that I'm not.
I just go out there and play my game and let the chips fall where they may.
It's just not thinking about starting all the time. You'll think, 'Just because I'm having good games, I need to be in the starting lineup.' Your teammates and coaches respect you even more if you're having good games and you're not worrying about it.
I think if I have that team mentality, then my individual growth will shine as it did in college.
Don't fill your free time with random things - if you're bored, get in the gym. Other than that, just stick to a routine and don't change it.
It's not about just how to maximize your finances but make sure it lasts a long time.
I pride myself on defending and rebounding.
We have mentally tough players coming out of Villanova.
I take real big pride in that. Delaware, the support that I get from Delaware - I mean, there are thousands of people reaching out to me. Whenever I go home, it's just so welcoming anywhere I go, and everybody is noticing me.
Everybody wants to be a first round pick.
You want to make sure you're aware of who's dealing with your money, what it's doing, and how you can save.
I've always been able to just kind of run around, do stuff whether I was hurt or not.
In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk to him a little bit.
I'm more than just a shooter.
Going to the Combine, I had a lot of eyes on me, high praise on me, so I had to perform well at the Combine, or everything would have just went downhill.
In high school, you don't play much defense. It's mostly offense. In college, it's vice versa, and that's what I tried to do.
When they take away some of our main guys, I just find myself open sometimes and knock down shots.