Before getting a job in the NBA, most players and coaches start their careers elsewhere before they can work their way up to the current situation they're in.
The Washington Wizards G-League affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go, has the luxury of having one of the brightest young minds in the league as their head coach, Cody Toppert.
Toppert has quickly gained respect around the league since taking over the head coaching job for the Go-Go, but prior to receiving the offer to lead the G-League team, the basketball mind cut his teeth by cold calling talented players world-wide as an assistant at LSU.
As the assistant for the Tigers, Toppert would be the point of contact for players around the country in high school during the recruiting process at LSU. In fact, the current head coach would not just reach out to the players, but he also would take the liberty in reaching out to parents to let his interest in coaching their son be known.
At some point throughout his journey, Toppert reached out to Kyshawn George's father Deon while George was in Switzerland.
Recruiting George to LSU, it never really dawned on the family how they knew the coach after the forward was drafted to the Wizards in the first round in last offseason's NBA Draft.
George's dad, Deon, is the one who made the connection between his son and current Go-Go head coach, which doesn't come as a surprise considering Toppert and him had talked on the phone to discuss his sons potential playing at the college level.
Toppert's training video spread to the George family
Toppert reached out to the George family, but he also became known in the household after going viral in a training video that Deon George showed his son. In the video, Topperts famous quote is what resonated with the Wizards forward's father, that ultimately led to him showing his son the training video.
"These are a series of drills we make sure that we do every single day, just like you get up in the morning and take your vitamins," Toppert said in the video.
From that point, George's dad shared the video with his son who was 12 at the time. After memorizing the drill, Deon would lead his son through most of the drills he memorized from the video until he was 15 years old.
Now, both Toppert and George are apart of the Wizards organization and his father's memory linked at how it this full-circle moment links all of them to today's relationship in Washington.