What Really Happened to Julian Newman: The Rise and Fall of a Basketball Prodigy

At 11 years old he had 74 YouTube videos with over a million views each. Luka Doncic had 20. Giannis had 33. At 23 he went 0 for 6 from three in his college debut and his team lost by 86 points. The story most people tell about Julian Newman stops at the LaMelo game. It does not tell you what happened after. The NBL deal that was supposed to change everything. The school his father built in a YMCA. The four years he spent in Las Vegas not playing organized basketball at all. Or what he actually said about the plan that never came together. He was not a fraud. He was a kid who peaked at 12 and never got a real second act. 🔔 Subscribe for more.