KNOXVILLE — Tennessee forward Yves Pons enters his senior season for the Vols in the upcoming 2020-21 campaign.
Pons met with media on a Zoom call Wednesday to discuss his process of returning to Tennessee and not going to the NBA early.
Below is a transcript of Pons’ press conference provided by the University of Tennessee.
On NBA interviews
“Instead of the workouts we did interviews with the NBA guys. I got to have 15 interviews and they mainly asked me about my life and my background. We talked a bit about basketball, but that was pretty much it. I’m just waiting on some feed-back from the NBA guys.”
On waiting until the deadline to decide about the draft
“Yes, on the morning of the deadline I did not know what I was going to do because we were still getting some feedback from my agent and the NBA. It was hard to make a decision ahead of that so that’s why we waited until the deadline and that’s when I made the decision.”