Former three-time NBA All-Star and Trail Blazers shooting guard Brandon Roy has brought his basketball talents to Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, a team that went from a 3-18 season record a year ago to No. 22 in USA Today’s Super 25 high school rankings.

The University of Washington star’s initial plan to help his former UW teammate Jamaal Williams as an assistant coach, turned into him taking the head coaching gig at Nathan Hale after some convincing from the “Maps” app from his phone.

Nathan Hale was a school he hadn’t heard of before, located 20 minutes from his home in Seattle’s Madison Park.

“Nah, I’m not driving that far south and sitting traffic,” Roy said he told Williams after he had received an offer to coach at Thomas Jefferson, per Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times. “Jamaal called me later and said he heard Nathan Hale was available if I wanted to be head coach. I had never been to Nathan Hale. I had to look it up.”

What came next for the former Rookie of the Year was a confluence of events. The Porter brothers, five-star wing Michael Jr. and Jontay – both committed to play at Washington – and Coban, a 6-foot-3 freshman guard, knew in May they’d relocate from Missouri when their father, Michael, took a job as an assistant coach on Lorenzo Romar’s Huskies staff.

“We weren’t considering Nathan Hale at all when we first moved to Seattle,” Porter Jr. told the Times. “Then we heard (Brandon) might be coaching at the school and thought, ‘Wow, that would be a unique experience.’ We can go into this together and try to make something great happen.”

Roy’s NBA career was a shooting star, blazingly radiant but cut short too fast to fully appreciate it.

The 32-year old played six seasons in the NBA — five for the Blazers and another for the Minnesota Timberwolves as he came back from retirement due to a degenerative knee condition in a last attempt to keep his career hopes alive.

Brandon Roy holds career averages of 18.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per game — his well-rounded game and basketball IQ have proven to be an asset for him in his short stint as a head coach.