GLENDALE, Ariz. — NC State weighty guy DJ Burns Jr. sees himself as a middle at the basketball courtroom, no longer a pulling safeguard at the soccer farmland.
His hobby in taking part in soccer when the season is over: “Zero,” he mentioned Thursday.
The 6-foot-9, 275-pounder’s street to the Ultimate 4 incorporated reviews that NFL scouts have watched his nimble footwork and prompt he could be an sly probability for the league.
Negative do business in, Burns mentioned, pace being peppered with questions within the depot room. It was once a semi-reversal of previous within the presen at the “Dan Patrick Show,” when the senior mentioned basketball was once all the time his first precedence however that “I’m not a closed-minded person.”
Burns mentioned he did, certainly, play games soccer when he was once more youthful.
“Until I got my first scholarship offer [for basketball], and then I quit immediately,” Burns mentioned.
Wolfpack educator Kevin Keatts mentioned he hasn’t gained a unmarried name about Burns as a soccer participant, and that the sport doesn’t in reality have compatibility his persona anyway.
“No way he’s going to play football,” Keatts mentioned. “I mean, listen, he’s got a great touch. He’s not that bully that you guys think. You spent some time with him? He’s a teddy bear off the court.”
