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John Wall Plans To Return To College This Summer To Work On His Business Degree

<p>John Wall has experienced huge success since entering the NBA back in 2010&period; Now the five-time all-star is setting up for his plans post the NBA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During All-Star weekend&comma; he shared his plans to return to college over the summer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;news&sol;wizards-insider&sol;wp&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;19&sol;john-wall-plans-to-return-to-college-this-summer-because-he-promised-his-dad-hed-get-degree&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;term&equals;&period;6d1f426cf589">The Washington Post<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; Wall talked about to returning to the University of Kentucky to complete his bachelor’s degree&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m going back to school this summer to get my business degree&period; That’s what I’m focusing on&period; I promised my dad that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wall’s father passed when he was 8-years-old&comma; and in 2010 Wall left the University of Kentucky and was drafted by the Washington Wizards as the number one overall draft pick&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 27-year-old admits he does not know exactly what he’ll do with the degree but understands the importance of having something outside of basketball&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When our career is over&comma; when we retire and the basketball stops bouncing&comma; we still have to find something else to do&comma;” said Wall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Whether you want to be a general manager&comma; a doctor&comma; a businessman&comma; whatever&comma; you have to believe on everything you stand on&period; We’re more than athletes and the stuff that’s going on in our society and in this world&semi; we have to speak on it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;I think we have the right to say whatever we want&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;news&sol;wizards-insider&sol;wp&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;19&sol;john-wall-plans-to-return-to-college-this-summer-because-he-promised-his-dad-hed-get-degree&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;term&equals;&period;6d1f426cf589">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;news&sol;wizards-insider&sol;wp&sol;2018&sol;02&sol;19&sol;john-wall-plans-to-return-to-college-this-summer-because-he-promised-his-dad-hed-get-degree&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;term&equals;&period;6d1f426cf589<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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