Elijah Bryant tells how he went from playing in Israel to signing with the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks contacted his agent mid-season, he negotiated out of his Israeli contract, and then it hit him: he'd made the NBA.
This is how I actually made it to the NBA. It was honestly the craziest story ever, now that I'm thinking about it. So basically, I'm playing in Israel, right? And I'm under contract. The season's almost over, and Milwaukee reaches out to my agent, and they're like, hey, like, would Elijah Bryant be interested? Would I be interested? You mean play with the Greek Freaky? My bad, I mean, do this for the Greek Freaky. No, you get the point. I was interested. Well, well, when you're under contract with a team, they have to come to negotiations, right? So they had to agree upon what that would be, and these type of negotiations aren't always the easiest. After trials and tribulations, the agreement was met and your boy was off. But it didn't feel real. It just felt like Is this really happening? Am I, am I dreaming? I'm an NBA player. Knowing me, as soon as after that, that initial wave of you made it, all that
