Jeremy Sochan has worn the Number 10 Jersey for the San Antonio Spurs since the 2022–23 season. The Milton Keynes native, along with fellow first-round picks Malaki Branham and Blake Wesley, was selected as the ninth overall choice in the 2022 NBA Draft. Since Tim Duncan was selected first overall in the 1997 NBA Draft, Sochan was San Antonio’s first selection in the top ten.
Sochan played the number nine during his time in England with Itchen College, as well as during the 2019 Hoopsfix All-Star Classic, but this was not available with the Spurs as he had retired following the career of illustrious French point guard, Tony Parker. Sochan wore number one during his one season at Baylor.
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Before he was even selected, Sochan was being compared to Dennis Rodman, who had played for the Spurs and wore the number 10, due to his outstanding defensive abilities and numerous haircut changes. Rodman was one of his kind and being compared to him meant a lot to Sochan.
“In Europe I played with the number 9, and then in Germany I played with 1, and then in Baylor I played with 1. So 9 + 1 is 10… It wasn’t because of [Dennis] Rodman.”
Jeremy Sochan on why he chose to wear the number 10.
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Jeremy spoke about the comparisons to Dennis Rodman, which he accepts but clarifies are totally accidental and that he’d rather be viewed as his own person. The number 10 on his jersey is not a tribute to Dennis Rodman; rather, it was chosen because he wore no. 9 in Europe and no. 1 at Baylor, therefore 9+1=10. He also described how he came to shoot one-handed free throws and how proud his father was of him for embracing the change.
Jeremy Sochan finally opens up about tattoos
In the NBA players often have tattoos. Some of them have a meaning while some of them just make it for the sake of it. Jeremy Sochan is a different guy when it comes to getting inked or getting tattoos. Each and every tattoo has a meaning to it.
Sochan explained about where his tattoos came from. On a trip to Croatia when he was 16, he received his first tattoo, a sun on his leg, and his stepfather got a similar one to go with it. He also created an abstract of Mary and Jesus based on a figurine his mother had given him.
Sochan also has a Life and death tattoo regarding the skull and the Doves on the forearm, arrows pointing out away from the tattoo, sort of like the negative energy leaving. There is also a vertex around the dove and the skull, meaning the positive energy stays in. The Spurs fans admire their No.10 and hope that he is on his level best for the ongoing 2023-2024 NBA Season alongside Hot-Prospect Victor Wembanyama.