“It's not to say I don't want African players to hustle and play hard, but I also wanted to show we can do more. We can dribble. We can have high IQs. We can pass the ball. We can shoot. I wanted to make sure I changed the perception.”

Cameroonian professional basketball player

Pascal Siakam is a Cameroonian professional basketball player, known for his career in the NBA. He was born in 1994 and plays for the Indiana Pacers. He won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 and has been selected to four NBA All-Star teams and two All-NBA teams. Before turning professional, he played college basketball for the New Mexico State Aggies, where he was named Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 2016. Toronto drafted him 27th overall in 2016, and he is also known by the nickname “Spicy P.”