Sam Young promises to entertain Sydney Kings fans. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images) Source: Michael Dodge / Getty Images
SAM Young wants to make you, the Sydney sports fan, a promise.
"Should we click as a team this Saturday,'' the Kings US import grins, "should we find our chemistry this weekend and finally get everyone in the same zone . . . yeah, then we're going to start making things interesting."
Undoubtedly the biggest name to ever wear a Kings jersey, Young will look to ink his name among this city's most exciting sportsmen -- think Dave Warner, Del Piero, even Sonny Bill Williams -- when he finally debuts at the Kingdome.
Up against the Wollongong Hawks, Young not only has the potential to draw the biggest Sydney crowd in years but -- with all respect to Dwayne McClain and Neon Leon Trimmingham -- push to establish himself as the most entertaining Kings player ever.
"And I look forward to entertaining,'' the 102kg swingman insists. "It's not something that takes up any time within the team, because our focus is on winning. But you run enough wins together and, yeah, you can start to look at ways to make the result more interesting.
"And with guys like AJ Ogilvy here, I'd love to see who can be the most entertaining among us. But, first, you need a chemistry which can take a week, a fortnight, a month . . . or it might just happen this Saturday at home."
And so, sports fans, we wait. Wondering if this Young fella really can take us back in time to when Neon Leon, well, he was starring in Thins potato chip commercials while McClain sauntered around court in his very own D-Train pumps.
Certainly opposing defences believe he can.
"Yes, I'm being marked fairly heavily but that's to be expected,'' the star of five NBA seasons continues. "Coming from the States, you're going to have a target on your back, especially with the way my arrival has been promoted.
"It's not like I've just walked off the street and someone has thrown me a jersey. So sometimes when I'm coming through the line they'll bump me for no reason, just to say 'yeah, we know, we know who you are'. That's fine."
More than anything right now, however, Young wants results. Even better, he and his fellow Kings want redemption after a sloppy 73-69 road loss to the Hawks last Saturday.
"That's what it is all about,'' he says. "We want to be a championship team and, to do that, you need to build the chemistry. So that's our most important task -- you start winning games and everything else comes off the back of that."
Standing at 198cm tall, Young is the latest name in a long list of entertaining Kings imports. Names like McClain, Trimmingham and, way back in 1991, Kenne Young -- who produced arguably the most memorable quote in NBL history with: "I like dunking more than sex".
Sadly, hampered by bung knees and bad form throughout his short tenure in Sydney, poor old Kenne did little of either in his time Down Under.
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