Mindaugas Kuzminskas said he felt pretty overwhelmed the first time he landed in New York City.
The Knicks rookie from Lithuania visited New York for the first time in July and said he felt like Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin McCallister in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."
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"In New York, I felt like Macaulay Culkin from ‘Home Alone’ the first evening when I just landed," Kuzminskas told the National Basketball Players Association. "My family wasn’t with me. I was with my agent. I was jet-lagged and I was walking and looking at the skyscrapers, like, ‘Wow.’ Since I’ve been here, I’ve visited Times Square, the World Trade Center monument and the Empire State Building."
Kuzminskas spent three days in the city during his first trip while he was finalizing his contract with the Knicks. Before his New York trip, Kuzminskas had only been to the United States twice — once to Los Angeles and once to Portland, Ore.
His time in New York has left a positive impression so far.
"I think the most interesting thing is the variety of the people," Kuzminskas told the NBPA. "All of them are different, all of them have their own world. You can see lots of nations, lots of different people, lots of different cultures, and that’s nice."
He better get used to the big city. Kuzminskas' rookie contract is a two-year deal worth nearly $6 million.