It may still be five weeks until the NBA season returns to action, but with training camp and pre-season now almost upon us for many around the league it’s the next two to three weeks that will prove most important. One such player preparing for one of the biggest opportunities of his life is Charlie Westbrook of the Milwaukee Bucks.

A Milwaukee native, Westbrook has traveled across both America and Europe pursuing his dream as a professional basketball player, but now he faces a new challenge as the world’s greatest league, the NBA, comes calling for him again in the form of his hometown Milwaukee Bucks.

Westbrook is joined on the Bucks roster by fellow training camp invitees Marcus Landry, Josh Powell, Jon Horford, and with Jorge Gutierrez‘s contract also non-guaranteed, the battle for roster spots is going to be incredibly competitive.

Looking ahead to those contests, I spoke to Westbrook about what this opportunity means to him, his past, his style of play, and his potential fit with the Bucks.

Westbrook has been putting the hard work in for years, so let’s get to know him a little better and see what the future has in store for him and the Milwaukee Bucks.