
(Feb 28, 2023) Joseph Nwabuzor was born in Los Angeles and has 3 sisters and 1 brother. His parents immigrated from Nigeria. His family moved from Carson to Rancho Palos Verdes when he finished 5th grade. He attended Miraleste Intermediate School and Peninsula High School and loved playing basketball there. He transferred to Mira Costa High School in his junior year to play under a coach he admired there, and graduated in 2003.
Then he attended Orange Coast Community College, played basketball and football there, and obtained an associate degree in Business Administration. With an athletic scholarship, he attended Acadia University in Nova Scotia, but left after 2 years to make money playing basketball in Norway, where he lived for 8 years.