Sene Focused On Improving

Assane Sene

Ever since he first started seriously playing basketball at age 14, Senegalese big man Assane Sene , one of the newest Cavaliers, knew he wanted to come to the United States to play.

“When I was like 14, I was getting tall,” Sene said. “When I was at that point, everyone said you’re getting tall. If you’re getting tall, you should play basketball and you can go to the U.S.”

Struggling, however, with the thought of leaving behind everything he’d ever known, Sene put off coming to the U.S. for a few years.

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