Former NBA player Chase Budinger is set to make his debut at the Olympics later this year, though he won’t be doing it on the hardwood.
The 36-year-old has earned a spot on the US beach volleyball team alongside partner Miles Evans having switched sports seven years ago. Their Olympic qualification was confirmed after another US pair, Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb, failed to accrue enough points to overtake Budinger and Evans in the rankings. According to NBC, Budinger will become the first person to have played an NBA regular season game and appeared at the Olympics in beach volleyball.
In volleyball, sometimes you could play two to three to sometimes four matches in a day, kind of like a training camp in basketball.” The six-feet, seven-inch Budinger excelled in volleyball and basketball when he was growing up, but chose to focus on the latter when he started at the University of Arizona.
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