Andre Ingram has been a G League player for nearly his entire professional basketball career. And now he is getting his first taste of NBA action.
The Los Angeles Lakers shared this awesome video to Twitter Monday which shows Ingram being given the awesome news that the Lakers were signing him for their final two games of the season.
You stay on the grind and at the end of your 10th year, you finally get the call.
Andre Ingram never stopped persevering and now his @NBA dream is a reality. #ThisIsWhyWePlay #LakeShow pic.twitter.com/1SZhc5SW7k
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 10, 2018
The Lakers are eliminated from playoff contention, which gives them the opportunity to do something cool like this ahead of their game on Tuesday against Houston and Wednesday against the Clippers.
Ingram, 32, began his G League (then known as “D League”) in 2007 as a member of the Utah Flash. He was traded to the Lakers’ D League team in 2012, spent part of 2016 in Australia, and then returned to the Los Angeles D-Fenders (now South Bay Lakers) He’s played so long that he is the league’s all-time 3-pointer king. And now he’ll get his first chance to play in an NBA game.
Credit to the Lakers for putting this together and making it happen. It’s great to honor your good company employees and even better to make someone’s dream come true.
