“As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that's what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I'm forever thankful.”

American professional basketball player

D'Angelo Russell, known as DLo, is an American professional basketball player. He was born in 1996 and has played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association, after a college career with the Ohio State Buckeyes and being selected second overall in the 2015 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. Russell first came to wider attention as a McDonald's All-American in 2014. His path runs through top-level college and professional basketball, with the Lakers drafting him after one season at Ohio State and later assignments in the CBA.