The wonderful world of Jeremy Sochan: Inside the well-traveled draft pick's unique path to the Spurs

The most interesting rookie in the class landed in San Antonio with the No. 9 pick

NEW YORK -- On the plane to D.C., where on Monday he had a pre-draft workout with the Washington Wizards, the 6-foot-9, 19-year-old Jeremy Sochan got the standard questions. First, yes, he is a basketball player. Fancy that. Second, well, that's complicated. 

"Good question," Sochan told his fellow passenger. "Where am I from?" 

While he was born in Guymon, Oklahoma and was a Thunder fan as a kid, he didn't attend an NBA game in person until his favorite team visited Manchester in the 2013 preseason. Sochan left the States for France when he was 2, moved to Southampton, England about a year later and grew up primarily in Milton Keynes, where his mother, Aneta, and stepfather, Wiktor Lipiecki, and younger brother still live.