How to Become a Pro Basketball Player

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name is Susan Summons and I'm a college basketball coach here at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus. Lets talk about how to become a pro basketball player. First you have to recognize the tremendous difficulty and work ethic that goes into becoming a pro basketball player. You have to start young. You have to be extremely talented. A talented, talented athlete. And you have to be willing to work hard and train hard to become a pro. You have to read magazines, read books, do research. Find out some of the historical perspectives on professional basketball players that currently exist in the game today. Find out how they did it. Find out what they did. What did they do to achieve great success? And be willing to go the distance to become a pro basketball player. To put yourself in the position to be drafted by a professional basketball league. Because it doesn't happen for everyone folks, lets face it. You've got to get a college education, too. You've got to get a college degree. In addition, a step by step process is #1. First of all you need to recognize the talent. #2. You need to learn and start playing when you're young. #3. You need to start developing a very regimented and conditioning program. And it's needed. It's important. And great pro players or players that want to become pro players are in tremendous athletic shape. They're in tremendous physical shape. They physically train. Some pro players train almost 2 or 3 hours a day every day of the week, Monday through Friday. So you have to be willing to be committed to training. And then be committed to perform."