Weber State<\/a>\u00a0during a season cut short due to health issues.<\/p>\n“Obviously there are\u00a0things that I wish I could have\u00a0got done (in university basketball),” he said. “I wish I was able to win more games with the teams I was on, but overall the experience was great. I got to play against, you know, some of the best teams in the country \u2014 like, 10 ranked teams throughout the course of my career, a lot of teams that were, like, NCAA tournament teams, NBA players, guys who went on to be superstars. I mean, one of my closest friends and a roommate\u00a0(at Santa Clara) is\u00a0Jalen Williams. You see him in Oklahoma City now, and you know, you just get to meet a lot of good people. I enjoyed the whole experience down there.”<\/p>\n
His door to the NBA hasn’t yet closed, insists the confident 25-year-old, who has Plan B options just in case, given his attention to schooling at those three U.S. universities (sociology and criminology for a possible future in law enforcement, maybe professional sales).<\/p>\n
“I still have that dream,” he said of playing in the NBA. “As you get older you have to change your priorities in a sense. I still think I’m young enough to the point where, you know, I want to build up my European career. Like I said earlier, my agent and I were talking about the best fit for me right now, basically putting me in a position to come up the ranks in European basketball, which is so well covered by the NBA, a lot of scouts there, and you see a lot of the NBA guys in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So I mean if it happens, it happens, and obviously that’s what I’m still striving for,” Tomley added. “But at the end of the day I think that I’ve done well with my career so far and obviously I have a lot more to go. I’m just kind of presenting the best version of myself, on and off the court.\u2026 I’m not gonna trip over one particular thing, I gotta just kind of embrace the whole journey.”<\/p>\n
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