Former UConn Husky Caron Butler says he wouldn’t have made a name for himself if he didn’t play in the Nike Peach Jam without his ankle bracelet on. 

(via All The Smoke):

“My first tournament where I really got recognized was the Peach Jam. I wasn’t even supposed to be there. It’s still going because it’s a major tournament, but I wasn’t even supposed to be there. One, I was on probation. Two, I had a bracelet. I was not supposed to be there. So I took the bracelet off. I left the bracelet in the house, so they thought I was still in the region. And I went to a tournament. Played in it. And I got on. So the headlines in the paper was like, ‘This kid has arrived.’ And my P.O. was like, ‘You wasn’t even supposed to be out the state.’ So that was an issue. Did seven days for that. My basketball story took off from that moment, though.”