“You know how you're in elementary school and the teacher goes around the room and, like, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' I said, 'NBA player.' And she's like, 'Well, OK. Maybe pick a real job.' But I really believed it. I felt like I was meant to be here.”

American professional basketball player, born 1995

Kyle Kuzma is an American professional basketball player, born in 1995. He has played in the NBA for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Washington Wizards, and the Milwaukee Bucks. He played college basketball for the Utah Utes and earned first-team all-Pac-12 honors as a junior in 2016 to 2017. Kuzma was selected 27th overall in the 2017 NBA draft, made the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2018, won an NBA championship with the Lakers in 2020, and was traded to the Wizards in 2021.