Inspired by basketball legends Russell Westbrook and James Harden, Wells’ basketball journey began at Sevenoaks Park in Grangetown, Cardiff, at the age of 14, thanks to his mother’s purchase of a basketball.<\/p>\n
“I ended up coming to this exact court the moment I got my basketball,” Wells says. “My first three or four shots went in, and I instantly fell in love with the game.”<\/p>\n
Now heading across the Atlantic Ocean, Wells takes inspiration from Welsh athletes’ successes in America, with the likes of Gareth Bale in Major League Soccer and Louis Rees-Zammit’s attempts to crack American Football’s National Football League (NFL).<\/p>\n
“It gives me confidence, full confidence, 100%,” he adds. “I have always had that confidence in myself ever since I was a 14-year-old kid.”<\/p>\n
Wells also credits Basketball Wales for his development as he continues to make significant strides in his career.<\/p>\n
He has played for the Welsh national side since under-16 level, having been selected while impressing for Cardiff City Basketball Club.<\/p>\n
“Representing Basketball Wales has been a very big achievement for me,” Wells says.<\/p>\n
“They have helped me grow a lot the past few years as I am now in the Wales under-20 national team.”<\/p>\n
In addition, the guard believes that we could see a multitude of Welsh basketball players make similar strides in their careers, especially due to basketball culture in Wales seeing a drastic upwards shift.<\/p>\n
“It is growing at a rapid rate,” he says. “I am seeing a lot of young hoopers, a lot of young stars, who could potentially go on to achieve amazing things in the future.”<\/p>\n
Wells says his “ultimate goal” is to become a Welshman playing in the NBA.<\/p>\n
“It is a goal I have been working for, for the past four to five years, and I know I am going to accomplish it,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by basketball legends Russell Westbrook and James Harden, Wells’ basketball journey began at Sevenoaks Park in Grangetown,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}