Leigh Ellis stunned his colleagues and listeners in October when he joined the Great Resignation, abruptly announcing his departure from “No Dunks.”
But the quirky 46-year-old Australian had serious chops, too, thanks to an encyclopedic knowledge of players dating to the late 1980s and an old-school philosophical approach to the game, shaped during his travels to 40 countries. Ellis uncorked his signature catchphrase — “very solid play” — to reward bounce passes, backdoor cuts and below-the-rim finishes that might not make it onto “SportsCenter’s” Top 10.
“I don’t know if I can turn this into a career, but I want to find out,” he said. “If I don’t do this now, it’s not going to happen. No one was going to come to me with this idea and ask me if I wanted to do it. The only way was to make a clean break and dive in headfirst. I felt like I had to try it.”When Ellis laid out his admittedly unfinished plans to his longtime podcast partners, they were supportive but surprised and a little skeptical about how he would financially sustain the project.
Ellis’s public announcement of his tour drew hundreds of new invites from Nepal, Sierra Leone and everywhere in between, and he immediately got to work on potential itineraries. How long he can stay in motion remains to be seen.In addition to juggling his responsibilities as a husband and father, he is acting as his own travel agent, location scout, booking manager, event planner, public relations chief, content creator, video editor and, of course, shooting guard.
Already, there have been notable successes. Ellis went to a raucous five-hour barbecue dinner with Sasha Doncic, father of Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic, and met Biserka Petrovic for a visit to the museum dedicated to her son, former NBA star Dražen Petrovic, who died in 1993. Damjan Rudez, a Croatian forward who spent three seasons in the NBA from 2014 to 2017, offered a tour of his childhood home, complete with tea brewed with leaves grown on the family farm.
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