Imagine for a second that you are packing up
your entire life. Oh boy, yeah. Just putting
everything you own into a couple of suitcases.
You're saying goodbye to your friends, your family.
Your favorite local coffee shop. Exactly. And
you are moving to a completely new country. You
have to figure out the language barrier, adjust
to a totally new culture, and, you know, learn
an entirely new system at work. Right. Now imagine
doing that not just once, but roughly every single
year. for an entire decade. It's exhausting just
thinking about it. It really is. Different time
zones, different currencies, completely different
locker rooms, and doing all of that for the absolute
unrelenting love of a game. Yeah. Welcome to
the show. Today's Deep Diet is titled The Global
Odyssey, an Ivy League Legacy of Ian Hummer.
It's a fascinating title for a fascinating guy.
It is. We're going to look really closely at
the anatomy of an international basketball career.
We're talking about the kind of overseas basketball
journeyman lifestyle that usually happens, you
know, far away from the NBA cameras. Right. The
stuff you don't see on primetime TV. Exactly.
And we are balancing that against the incredibly
heavy historic weight of Ivy League basketball
records. Yeah, it really is a phenomenal trajectory
to unpack. And just to set the stage for you
listening, we are basing our analysis today on
a really comprehensive biographical overview
of the American Azerbaijani professional basketball
player Ian Hummer. The source material we're
looking at meticulously outlines his progression.
It starts with him as a standout. at Gonzaga
High School basketball in Washington, D .C.,
moves through his years as absolute Princeton
basketball royalty all the way to his current
status as a true global athlete. And the mission
of this deep dive isn't just to rattle off a
list of box scores. No, definitely not. Or, you
know, just read off team names. Hummer's story
serves as this perfect lens for you to understand
the underlying mechanics of professional sports.
Right. The unseen pathways. Exactly. The highly
transient pathways that dictate how a player
survives and actually thrives when they're operating
outside the guaranteed contracts of the NBA.
Right. Because it's a completely different world
over there. OK, so let's unpack this, because
to really understand how a guy ends up playing
in nine different countries and eventually suiting
up for the Azerbaijan national team, we have
to start where that competitive fire was originally
lit. Yeah, we have to go back to D .C. Right.
For Ian Hummer, that crucible was high school
basketball in the Washington, D .C. area. Specifically,
Gonzaga College High School. And if we look at
the landscape of high school hoops, the Washington
Catholic Athletic Conference, the WOTA is just
notorious. An absolute gauntlet. A total pressure
cooker for a teenager. It really is one of the
premier talent incubators in the entire country.
Like the WCC consistently produces high major
division I talent. Future pros are everywhere.
You were playing against elite athletes every
single night in these packed, highly partisan,
sweaty gyms. And within that intense pressure
cooker, Ian Hummer wasn't just surviving, he
was thriving. He was dominating. Right. By his
junior year, this is the 2007 to 2008 season,
Gonzaga was the top -ranked school in the entire
D .C. metro area. And he was a critical piece
of that machine. But it was really his senior
year where his production forced everyone nationally
to pay attention. Exactly. His senior year, the
2008 to 2009 season, he wins the Washington Post
Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Which is
a massive deal. It's huge. Winning that specific
award in that specific region means you are the
absolute best player in a league that is overflowing
with future NBA draft picks. Right. But there
is one game. from that season that completely
stands out in the source material. It happened
on January 21st, 2009. Gonzaga is going up against
their arch rival. DeMatha Catholic High School.
Oh, the DeMatha rivalry. Yeah, DeMatha is sitting
there ranked number 15 in the entire nation.
It was a defining performance. Against a nationally
ranked DeMatha squad, Hummer delivered a staggering
32 points and 15 rebounds. Just massive numbers.
Insane numbers for high school. This wasn't just
a good local game. This performance earned him
the ESPN Rise National Boys Basketball Player
of the Week, and the impact on his team was immediate.
Single victory vaulted Gonzaga from being ranked
43rd nationally all the way up to number 13.
A 30 spot jump. Yeah, a massive leap in the national
polls. And it was driven almost entirely by his
sheer dominance in the paint. But wait, I have
to play devil's advocate here for a second. Okay,
go for it. If you are dropping 32 points and
15 rebounds on the number 15 team in the country,
you would think every blue blood college program
in the nation is knocking down your door. You
would assume so, yeah. But that isn't what happened.
We see this massive scouting dilemma in the sources.
He's listed at 6 '7". 225 pounds, and he's playing
with his back to the basket. He's basically defending
opposing centers. Right. So why did the power
conferences look at a guy completely dominating
the WCQC and decide to pass? It is a fascinating
look into the rigid risk aversion of college
basketball scouting. How so? Well, it comes down
to positional translation at the next level.
Major power conferences looked at his profile
and labeled him with an underdeveloped face -up
game. Ah, the classic label. Exactly. At 6 '7",
he was essentially playing the center position
in high school. But in the ACC or the Big East,
a 6 '7 center is considered drastically undersized.
Because suddenly he isn't backing down, you know,
17 -year -old kids. He's trying to back down
6 foot 11 guys who weigh 260 pounds. Precisely.
Scouts questioned his potential to adapt. They
assumed his low post skills would be entirely
neutralized by larger, stronger athletes in a
major conference. Right. To survive at that size
in a major league, you typically need to transition
to a perimeter role. You know, handling the ball,
shooting from the outside, facing the basket.
Blowing out of the wing. Yeah. But because Hummer
hadn't needed to showcase those perimeter skills
to dominate at the high school level, scouts
projected that he simply couldn't do it. That's
so frustrating. It is. They evaluated him based
on a theoretical projection of what he might
struggle with rather than trusting the elite
production he was actively delivering against
top tier competition. It's the classic tweener
trap. You know, you are supposedly too small
to play in the post and too big or unproven to
play on the wing. Exactly. So he's getting offers.
But the sources note they're primarily from mid
-major programs. Yeah. And he just wasn't interested
in settling for that. He knew his worth. He absolutely
knew he could play at a higher level. Yeah. And
this leads us to his college commitment, which
I honestly think is one of the most refreshing
stories in this whole timeline. It really is.
Amidst all the typical recruiting circus, his
decision to commit to Princeton basketball under
head coach Sidney Johnson was incredibly grounded.
It really highlights his pragmatism. He was taking
a campus visit to Princeton with his father and
they were staying in the dorm room of his older
brother, Alex, who was already a student there.
Yeah. The turning point didn't happen in a coach's
office. It didn't happen on the court. It happened
at midnight when Hummer decided to walk across
campus to hang out in the dorm room of a player
named Dan Mavrates. Just a casual midnight stroll.
Exactly. That simple act of wandering across
the quad, that casual comfort of feeling like
he naturally belonged in that environment. That
was the deciding factor. His father saw that
level of comfort and just knew Ian was ready.
He had found his fit. I love that. He didn't
need the red carpet treatment. He just needed
to know he fit in the locker room and on the
campus. Right. And he certainly wasn't taking
the summer off to celebrate either. The sources
mentioned he spent his time training at the Georgetown
gym, leveraging a connection with John Thompson
III. He even played in the Kenner League, which
is the only NCAA -sanctioned summer league in
D .C. So he is constantly sharpening his tools
against elite talent. What's really fascinating
here is how the constraints that limited his
high major recruitment actually forced him into
the perfect ecosystem. What do you mean? Well,
if he had possessed that face -up game at 17,
he might have gone to a major conference, been
relegated to a role player, and had a completely
different career trajectory. Oh, that makes sense.
Instead, his perceived physical limitations led
him to the Ivy League. And specifically to a
Princeton system that heavily relies on high
basketball IQ, precise passing, and versatile
post play. Right. The famous Princeton offense.
Exactly. It was the exact environment needed
to maximize his specific skill set. Well, here's
where it gets really interesting. Because choosing
Princeton wasn't just about finding a good offensive
system for his game. No, not at all. For Ian
Hummer, putting on that Princeton jersey meant
stepping into a multi -generational family dynasty.
And you really have to imagine the psychological
weight of this for a second. The family ties
are deeply embedded in the history of that program.
Right. His father, Ed Hummer, was a member of
the Princeton class of 1967. And Ed actually
played alongside the legendary Bill Bradley Princeton
icon, helping take the Princeton Tigers to the
NCAA Final Four in 1965. Which is just mythical
status in Ivy League basketball. Beyond that,
his Uncle John, class of 1970, played at Princeton.
Wow. Right. Your dad went to the Final Four with
Bill Bradley, who is basically the mythic hero
of the Ivy League. Your uncle was an NBA player.
Your brother is on the team right now. Yeah.
The expectations are astronomical. But there
is also a profound, tragic element to his background
that the sources outline. And we have to acknowledge
it to get the full picture. Yes. During his freshman
year of high school, Ian's mother, Judy, passed
away from breast cancer. It's a devastating loss
at an incredibly vulnerable age. Absolutely.
If we look at the timeline here. He is navigating
the intense pressure cooker of the WCAC, dealing
with national media attention, facing the frustrations
of the college recruiting process and bearing
the weight of this massive family legacy. Yeah.
All while processing the profound grief of losing
his mother as a teenager. The sheer psychological
resilience required to maintain his focus and
his drive through that period is remarkable.
It really is. The basketball court often becomes
the ultimate sanctuary when your personal life
is just turned upside down. So he arrives at
Princeton carrying all of this, the legacy, the
grief, the chip on his shoulder from the scouts
who said he was too small. And he immediately
starts laying the foundation for an incredible
career. Let's look at his freshman year. The
2009 to 2010 season. His impact was steady, but
highly efficient right out of the gate. Yeah.
A standout moment occurred on December 13th,
2009. They were playing against UNC Greensboro.
Princeton wins the game comfortably, 65 to 50,
and Hummer leads the team in scoring for the
very first time with 17 points. Nice. He adds
a couple of steals and rebounds, but crucially,
and this is the key stat, he commits zero turnovers.
Zero turnovers. Zero. That level of ball security
as a freshman is exceptionally rare, and it earned
him his first of two Ivy League Rookie of the
Week awards that season. 17 points and zero turnovers
as a freshman is exactly how you earn a college
coach's trust. Absolutely. And that trust pays
off heavily in his sophomore year, the 2010 to
2011 season. He starts 31 out of 32 games. A
huge jump in responsibility. Huge. But there
is a specific stretch against Lafayette and St.
Joseph's that is just mathematically absurd.
The shooting numbers. Yes. Against Lafayette,
he puts up 22 points, six rebounds, four assists,
and two blocks. Then against St. Joe's, he dropped
17 points and eight rebounds. But the kicker,
over those two games, he shot 18 for 24 from
the field. Which is? That is a 75 % shooting
clip. To shoot 75 % over multiple games against
a vision of competition requires an elite combination
of shot selection and physical control. Right.
He's not just throwing up prayers. Exactly. It
proved he wasn't forcing bad shots or rushing
his offense. He was systematically dissecting
the defense, finding his spots in the post or
the mid range and executing with incredible efficiency.
This earned him his first Ivy League player of
the week honor. But the broader impact was on
the team's overall success. They had a great
year. That sophomore production was vital in
helping Princeton secure a share of the Ivy League
title, win a playoff game against Harvard, and
earn a trip to the NCAA tournament. And the NCAA
tournament matchup was against Kentucky. That
is the ultimate test. You've got this undersized
kid from the Ivy League going up against a Kentucky
roster that's essentially an NBA waiting room.
A roster full of future pros. Right. And Princeton
loses, but they only lose by two points. That
was a nail -biter. For Hummer. Playing major
minutes in that game and earning second -team
All -Ivy honors that year had to be massive validation.
It proved he could absolutely hold his own against
the highest level of athletic competition in
the country. It was a critical turning point
in his confidence. And as we move into his junior
year, the 2011 -2012 season, we start to see
the emergence of a truly complete player. The
evolution. Right. He develops what is often referred
to as the clutch gene. Early in the season against
Rutgers, he hits the game -winning layup with
just three seconds remaining on the clock. There
is no better feeling in sports than hitting a
game -winner on the road. None. And he follows
that up by just filling out the entire stat sheet
night after night. In an overtime win against
Ryder, he posts 21 points, 12 rebounds, 7 assists,
and 4 steals. Then against Northeastern, it's
20 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, and 5 steals.
Those assists and steal numbers are jumping way
up. That is the crucial evolution of his game.
Reaching career highs in assistance deals demonstrates
that he is no longer just a post -scorer. He's
running the show. He has transitioned into a
highly versatile hub for the offense. He is reading
the floor, anticipating defensive rotations,
finding his open teammates, and becoming a highly
disruptive force on the defensive end. Yeah.
He was answering every single question the Scouts
had raised three years earlier. Absolutely. And
then comes the absolute marathon game against
Florida State on December 30. That game was intense.
Florida State went on to win the ACC championship
that year, so they were an elite, highly physical
team. And the game goes into three overtimes.
Three. Hummer is out there battling, and he finishes
with 25 points and 15 rebounds. The sheer conditioning
and mental fortitude required to bang in the
post against an ACC frontcourt for three overtimes
is staggering. It is a massive testament to his
physical durability. and that endurance allowed
him to hit major historical milestones. On February
4 against Yale, he scored 18 points to become
the 29th Princeton Tiger to reach the 1 ,000
-point mark. Incredible. Notably, he became the
second member of the Hummer family to do so.
Of course. But to truly understand the historical
weight of his junior year, we really have to
look at his total scoring output for the season,
which was 515 points. Right, and that number
is incredibly significant. because 515 points
was the highest single -season scoring total
by a Princeton player since Bill Bradley. There
it is. There is that name again, the ghost of
Princeton's past. For decades, players have tried
to reach that statistical stratosphere, and it
is incredibly poetic that the player to finally
breach it is the son of Bradley's former teammate.
The narrative symmetry is quite profound. It
really is. He finishes his junior year as a unanimous
first -team all -Ivy selection. He's firmly established
as the premier player in the conference. This
perfectly sets the stage for his senior year,
the 2012 -2013 season. He was named co -captain,
and he was the unanimous preseason pick for Ivy
League Player of the Year. The expectations were
as high as they could possibly be. And he absolutely
shatters them. The senior year statistics are
just relentless. Oh, yeah. He opens the season
in November by dropping a career -high 28 points
on Lafayette while adding seven rebounds, five
assists, four steals, and a block. Just total
domination across every single category. Later
in the year, he ties that 28 -point mark again
against Elon. But what really stands out is his
absolute grip on the Player of the Week awards.
His consistency was unparalleled that year. He
wins Ivy League Player of the Week on December
10. Then he wins it again on December 17. And
again on December 24. He became the first Princeton
Tiger in the history of the program to earn the
recognition three consecutive weeks. Winning
it three weeks in a row is crazy. But wait, let
me ask you about this. If you win Player of the
Week three times in December, every single opposing
coach in the Ivy League is spending their entire
week figuring out how to stop you. Right, you're
at the top of the scouting report. They are throwing
double teams at you, denying you the ball, changing
their defensive schemes entirely just for you.
How does a player continue to put up those numbers
when the entire gym knows he's the primary threat?
He was outsmarting them. Exactly. Adaptability
allowed him to win Player of the Week again on
January 7, then February 4, then February 25,
and finally on March 4. Seven times in a single
season. Unbelievable. They might as well have
renamed it the Ian Hummer Award. Setting a new
single season record with seven awards and tying
the all -time Ivy League career record with nine.
Yeah. And as he's collecting these awards, he
is matching the ultimate benchmark. He joins
Bill Bradley as the only two players in the history
of Princeton basketball to record 1 ,300 career
points and 600 career rebounds. It is an exclusive
club of two. Yeah. And he continued to climb
the historical ladders during a crucial 58 -53
victory over Harvard late in the season. He posted
a massive double -double with 23 points and 14
rebounds. In a huge game. Right. With that performance,
he passed Kit Mahler and Doug Davis to move into
second place on the all -time Princeton career
scoring list. Second only to Bill Bradley. Yeah.
And he passed Doug Davis for the most games played
in Ivy League history, which just speaks volumes
about his toughness. His durability was amazing.
He was never injured. He never took a night off.
The season ends with him being named a unanimous
first -team All -Ivy selection, the Ivy League
Player of the Year, which was the first for Princeton
since 1999, and he earns an Associated Press
honorable mention All -American nod. It is a
collegiate masterpiece. He essentially completed
college basketball. He took a perceived physical
limitation from high school, found the perfect
environment to leverage his unique intelligence
and versatility, and etched his name permanently
into the history books of one of the nation's
most prestigious institutions. But the transition
from collegiate legend to professional athlete.
is rarely a seamless continuation. Right. You
are an All -American. You are the Ivy League
Player of the Year. The next logical step in
the American sports dream is hearing your name
called in the NBA draft. Exactly. But in 2013...
Ian Hummer goes undrafted. He gets an invite
to the Los Angeles Lakers summer league team,
but he doesn't secure a spot on the regular season
roster. I imagine that has to be an incredibly
tough emotional pivot. You reach the absolute
mountaintop of college and suddenly the primary
door to the pros is closed. It is a harsh reality
check that many elite college athletes face.
The NBA is a league of profound scarcity. There
are only a few hundred roster spots available
globally. Yeah. The math is brutal. Very brutal.
When that door doesn't immediately open an athlete
faces a critical choice. abandon the dream, or
pivot to the international market. Hummer chose
the latter, embarking on what would become a
massive, decade -long global odyssey. So what
does this all mean for his day -to -day life?
Let's talk about the sheer logistics of his international
basketball career path, because it is staggering
to look at. It really is. In January 2014, he
signs with a team in Germany. By August of that
same year, he is playing in Finland. Right. In
2016, he heads back to Germany, then moves to
Turkey. In 2017, he signs in Russia. In 2018,
he is playing for Monaco in France. Keeping track
of the passports alone is crazy. Oh, it keeps
going. In 2019, he is back in Russia, then back
to Turkey. In 2020, Germany again, followed by
another stint in Turkey. In 2021, he heads to
Greece. In 2022, back to Turkey. In 2023, he
plays in Greece and then heads to Japan. And
recently he's played in Australia and Hong Kong.
It is an incredible geographic footprint. He
is the definition of an overseas basketball journeyman.
But I have to stop and ask why. Yeah. If he's
putting up solid numbers, why is he packing his
bags every single season? Is there a flaw in
his game that prevents teams from keeping him?
Or is the international system just inherently
designed against long -term stability? That's
a great question. Like why not sign a guy to
a three -year contract if he's performing well?
It really strikes at the heart of European and
international basketball economics. The system
is almost entirely built on short term, high
stakes cycles. How so? Unlike the NBA, where
franchises have massive guaranteed television
revenue and salary caps that encourage long term
roster building, the vast majority of international
clubs operate on strict year to year budgets.
Oh, so they literally don't know how much money
they will have to spend next season. Exactly.
Their budgets are often tied to immediate performance.
In many European leagues, there is a system of
promotion and relegation. Like in European soccer?
Precisely like soccer. If your team finishes
at the bottom of the league, you are demoted
to a lower division, which means massive financial
losses. Because of this pressure, contracts are
overwhelmingly one year deals. OK. That makes
sense. So if a player like Hummer goes to a mid
tier team in Turkey and plays exceptionally well
his market value immediately increases. Right.
The mid tier team usually can't afford to resign
him at his new price. So he leverages that success
to sign a more lucrative one year deal with a
wealthier club in Russia or France. So it's constant
upward mobility or lateral movement. If a team
decides to overhaul their roster. Exactly. You
essentially have to prove your worth every single
day to ensure you have a job eight months from
now. And he is doing this in some of the absolute
toughest domestic leagues on the planet. We are
talking about the German Basketball Bundesliga,
the Turkish Basketball Super League, the VTB
United League in Russia, the LMB Pro A in France,
the Greek Basket League, the Japanese B League,
and the Australian NBL. The tactical adaptability
required to navigate that sequence of leagues
is immense. I can't even imagine. A fan might
look at that list and just see basketball. Yeah,
the sources highlight this. For instance, during
the 2021 to 2022 season, while playing for Ikekei
Athens in the Greek Basket League, which is notoriously
defensive and half -court oriented, he averaged
13 .4 points, 6 .4 rebounds, 2 .3 assists, and
1 .7 steals per game. That's really solid. Those
are phenomenal. Phenomenal numbers in a league
that makes scoring very difficult. And it proves
that his core basketball intelligence translated
universally. It proves his game travels. Definitely.
But we have to look at the human element here,
the psychological toll. How does a person maintain
their mental focus, their physical health, and
any concept of home when their employer, their
teammates, and their country of residence change
every 8 to 12 months? It takes a special kind
of person. You are dealing with different languages,
different cultural norms, different currencies.
You are living out of suitcases, thousands of
miles away from your family. It requires a profound
level of compartmentalization. To survive a decade
in that environment, you have to become an absolute
expert in rapid acclimation. The basketball port
has to become your only constant, the only universal
language that actually makes sense. You learn
to find routine within the chaos. Right. But
beyond the logistical challenges, living a nomadic
lifestyle for 10 years fundamentally alters your
identity. You are no longer just a kid from the
D .C. area. Your worldview expands exponentially.
Which perfectly sets up the fascinating twist
in the late stages of his career. Yes, the international
plot twist. His official nationality is now listed
in the sources as American Azerbaijani. Yeah.
And in 2024, Ian Hummer debuted for the Azerbaijan
men's national basketball team and the European
pre -qualifiers for the 2027 FIBA Basketball
World Cup. It's quite a jump. Let's just pause
and appreciate the distance traveled here. A
kid from Vienna, Virginia, who played high school
ball in D .C. and college ball in New Jersey,
is now putting on a jersey to represent Azerbaijan
on the global stage. Right. How does the mechanics
of this actually work? If we connect this to
the bigger picture, it is a brilliant illustration
of the globalization of basketball and the specific
mechanisms of FIBA, the international governing
body for the sport. Okay. Break that down for
us. Under FIBA regulations, a national team is
allowed to have one naturalized player on their
roster who acquired the legal nationality of
that country after the age of 16. Just one. Just
one per team. This loophole has created a mutually
beneficial, highly strategic practice across
international basketball. Let me make sure I
understand this. A country like Azerbaijan realizes
they need a high -level big man to compete in
European qualifiers. Right. So they look at the
landscape of American professionals playing overseas.
They identify a veteran like Hummer, who has
a proven track record of adapting to European
play. And they essentially recruit him to become
a citizen. Precisely. For the emerging basketball
nation, it provides an immediate high -level
talent injection at a position of need. It elevates
the entire national program. And what's in it
for the player? For a player like Hummer, it
offers an incredible set of opportunities. First,
it grants them a second passport. Which is valuable.
Incredibly valuable. In many European leagues,
there are strict limits on the number of import
or American players a team can have. Ah, quotas.
Yes, import quotas. Having a European or Asian
passport can drastically increase a player's
value on the open market because they no longer
count against that quota. That is incredibly
smart business. It is highly strategic. And secondly,
it allows the player to compete in prestigious
international tournaments. You get the opportunity
to play in World Cup qualifiers, experiencing
the unique intensity of national team basketball
representing a country on the global stage. It
really is the ultimate cosmopolitan athlete experience.
Very much so. He is a global citizen of the sport.
It just shows how vast the basketball world is
and how far the game can take you if you are
willing to adapt to its demands. Definitely.
you look back at everything we've unpacked today,
it's just a phenomenal grinding journey. It truly
is. We have traced a path from a high school
player who was dismissed by power conferences
for being undersized and supposedly lacking a
perimeter skill set. Instead of fading away,
he capitalized on the perfect collegiate fit.
He embraced the immense historical weight of
the Hummer family legacy at Princeton, shattered
decades -old records, and cemented his name permanently
alongside Bill Bradley. And when the traditional
NBA path didn't materialize, he didn't quit.
Not at all. He took his game to Germany, Finland,
Turkey, Russia, France, Greece, Japan. Australia
and Hong Kong. He built a decade -long, globe
-spanning career that the vast majority of basketball
players can only dream of experiencing. It's
an incredible resume. It is a massive testament
to the value of finding the right fit rather
than the biggest fit and the relentless, tough
adaptability required to be a true professional.
That adaptability is precisely the concept I
want to leave our listeners with today. Go ahead.
This raises an important question, something
for you to mull over after we sign off. Consider
the sheer volume of different offensive schemes,
defensive systems, foreign languages, and cultural
norms that Ian Hummer has had to absorb and master
over the last 10 years. It's mind -blowing. In
our modern society, we frequently praise people
for job loyalty, for staying in one place, or
for finding a single permanent home in their
career. Right, climbing the corporate ladder
at one company. Exactly. But what can we learn
from the extreme adaptability of the global journeyman
athlete? Does constantly changing your environment
prevent you from ever truly settling down? Or
is the constant friction of the unknown the very
thing that keeps your skills sharp, your mind
engaged, and your career thriving? That is a
brilliant thought to end on. Does the comfort
of staying in one place make us complacent? And
does the challenge of the unknown keep us elite?
Exactly. It's a question we can all apply, whether
we're navigating a new corporate job or playing
power forward in Azerbaijan. Well said. Thank
you so much for joining us on this exploration
of the global odyssey and Ivy League legacy of
Ian Hummer. We love taking these deep dives with
you, unpacking the facts and finding the human
stories hidden inside the statistics. Until next
time, keep questioning, keep learning, and we
will catch you on the next deep dive.