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From Kitchener, Ont., to the NBA Finals, Jamal Murray steals the spotlight

When Canadian NBA star Jamal Murray was a teenager at the Orangeville Prep Basketball Academy, he declined to have a mobile phone for most of his two years with the program.

He wanted his focus to be on basketball so that he could take his game to the next level.

"Jamal just knew that it would be a distraction so he didn't want one from the start," said academy founder Jesse Tipping, president of the Athlete Institute.

In the 2016 NBA Draft, he was selected seventh overall by Denver. Murray became a star guard with the Nuggets and has helped lead the club to the NBA Finals starting Thursday night against the Miami Heat.

"It's great to see that someone who came here from Kitchener, bet on himself, bet on the Canadian system and dedicated everything he had towards his dreams is now playing for an NBA championship and is a leader on his team," Tipping said.

"I would go against Billups and Rasheed Wallace...talk like Marv Albert...I was in deep."<br><br>Jamal Murray on making up scenarios as a kid where he played the hero in the Playoffs

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