Byus Egor Demin Dream to be an NBA player

Chicago – Egor Demin will not return to BYU, but that doesn't mean that he is finished with Utah.

Although he only spent a year in Utah under the direction of Cougar's head coach Kevin Young, it became the perfect home for the NBA Draft Prospect from 2025. So much that the 19-year-old already has big plans to finally buy a house and withdraw in the Behive state as soon as his career as a player is over.

“I love Utah. I see myself when I retire from my basketball career and return to Utah and have a house there, somewhere next to Travis Hansen in the mountains. I see myself there after my career.”

– EGOR Demin

“I love Utah,” he said. “I see myself when I withdraw from my basketball career and returned to Utah and have a house there, somewhere next to Travis Hansen in the mountains. I see myself there after my career.”

It is not just about the picturesque nature of Utah, but about the deep connections that Demin made during Byu. He wanted to end in a place where he could not only find comfort and peace, but also to thrive on the square on and off the square while preparing himself for the next life – the NBA.

After Young was taken over in the NBA coaching ranks at BYU after years, Demin has the feeling that he was more prepared for the preliminary design process than he had been if he had chosen elsewhere.

“More than any other he could imagine, he prepared me for this moment,” said Demin. “More than I expected. Obviously I didn't underestimate him, I had expected that he taught me and was ready to learn as much as possible and be a sponge. But yes, I got so much from him.”

And the moment is here. This week Demin in Chicago in the NBA Combine was ready and determined to prove itself in front of NBA scouts, managers and trainers from Front Office.

In the early days of last season at the BYU, Demin projected as a potential top 10 selection. But a slight injury and a certain amount of its shooting numbers had many worries that he could get out of the lottery.

Nevertheless, he still projected the latest shelf designs as a lottery (TOP-14) and his shooting performance and his interviews with teams on the combine harvester to facilitate some of the worries.

In the 3-point drills in the combine harvester, Demin 14 out of 30 made at committees from the triple, 17-von-25 shots, 14 von-25 shots in the 3-point star drill and 17 out of 28 in the 3-point side drilling machine and also reached 80% of the leisure.

Demin already had interviews with the Atlanta Hawks, Sacramento Kings, Washington Wizards, Brooklyn Nets and Oklahoma City Thunder. He will have more interviews with teams during the week and then a whole series of personal training sessions after the mower is over.

In interviews, Demin wants teams to know how committed he is committed to his game and improvement. He also wants the NBA decision -makers to know that he has paid in detail and paid attention to his shot on feedback and worked closely with Young to understand things that NBA teams will expect from him.

“The details of understanding what a good shot is and what is a bad shot, which does not always depend on the defense,” said Demin. “A wide -open shot can be a bad shot that speaks about the time of possession, the score – from there and ends with its footwork, its rhythm, shot, her legs and its energy.”

In the past, Demin would have considered every open shot, but now he is trying to think through the offensive on an even deeper level. This is often something that NBA trainers work in young prospects in the first seasons, so Demin is ahead of the game in this front.

These developments can only help to strengthen what teams think about Demin, but it is really his vision and death, which makes him a desirable view and has not changed. His ability to make passports at the right time and see the game several actions in advance has brought him comparisons with players like Luka Doncic, but Demin will tell you that it is not his job to copy anyone.

“Luka is quite obvious – the big guards that happen – but obviously Luka Luka and EGOR is in a good way. I don't try to be like someone else, I just try to get pieces from different players and various personalities to build my own project in which I see myself in the future.”

In the near future, Demin lives his dreams as a NBA player and helps a team to win. In the extended future, he sees back to be where this process began, and hopefully remained the one who helped him.

“I had a lot of fun being in Utah and I went there to play basketball and I found that I found basketball there,” said Demin. “But I also found a lot of good people and my new lifelong friends and mentors.”