Patty Mills has taken on a new chapter in his basketball life, officially becoming the General Manager of the University of Hawai’i Mens Basketball program.<\/p>\n
A 16-year NBA veteran, Mills has joined the growing list of professionals getting involved in college programs, picking up the role on the island of Oahu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With his maiden season in charge approaching, Mills has set a surprising challenge for his Rainbow Warriors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patty Mills sets impressive challenge as GM of University of Hawai’i Men’s Basketball<\/p>\n
Patty Mills has set a challenge for the Hawai’i Men’s Basketball team, in an attempt to truly connect with the community and it’s basketball scene.<\/p>\n
The Australian decided that they would take one basketball and make a three-pointer on every outdoor court in Hawai’i, in an effort to bond with the team and increase their connection with the community.<\/p>\n
“Part of the new Roots and Reach program that we launched, as a way to connect the team with the community, was to get this ball and have it travel around the whole state,” Mills said in a video posted to his Instagram account.<\/p>\n
“One ball, one three, every outdoor court in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
“Some say it’s impossible, others say it’s a waste of time. can’t be done.<\/p>\n
“I was also told that I’m too short to play in the NBA. I kind of figured that one out. I think we can do this.”<\/p>\n
After finishing ninth in the Big West conference last season, Hawai’i will hope Mills can bring an edge to the team for the first time since 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patty Mills has taken on a new chapter in his basketball life, officially becoming the General Manager of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-49305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}