HOUSTON (FIBA Hall of Fame/FIBA U18 Asia Championship 2018) - Pero Cameron will be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame on September 30 as one of the legends of New Zealand basketball who also left his mark on the world game. With that legacy comes a certain pressure on his children, as his son Flynn Cameron admits as he tries to blaze his own trail.

The 17-year-old Flynn Cameron has already reached a certain level in the game, having represented New Zealand at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 2017. In fact, Cameron made history for the Junior Tall Blacks by helping beat Australia in the FIBA U18 Oceania Championship 2016 Final to qualify for the U19 spectacle for the first time.

"It meant a lot," Cameron said about playing at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup earlier this summer. "After representing New Zealand at Oceania in Fiji and then doing something that no one in New Zealand had done before - beating Australia. So that was a great experience. And just taking it to the world was that much better."

But there was the matter of having the name "Cameron" on the back of his jersey. Flynn's father was a beloved figure around the world - not just in New Zealand - because of his let us call it an "everyday man's physique". The elder Cameron earned his FIBA Hall of Fame induction by playing at two Olympics and three FIBA Basketball World Cups for the Tall Blacks and winning the New Zealand NBL nine times as a player and twice as a coach.

"It's a big expectation to live up to," Flynn told fiba.basketball at an international talent camp in Houston. "He's definitely been my idol since day one. Just watching him play and how he controls the game. I only watched towards the end of his career. I was born in 2000 when he was in his prime but I don't remember that."

Cameron played four seasons in Great Britain starting in 1999 and then ventured back off to Europe in 2005 for two more seasons, the second one which ended with him playing in Iran. He then returned to finish his career in the Australian NBL with the Gold Coast Blaze.

"I remember the Blaze days. I remember the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2010 when he was just being a vet. It was good seeing him captain that team one last time," Flynn said.

Cameron also had the unique opportunity of playing at this summer's U19 World Cup with his brother Tobias, who is 1 year older than him.

"It was a great experience. It's always good to have someone watch your back over there, especially your brother," Flynn said. "It's just more meaningful. We were together since day one."

Flynn Cameron will actually have a chance to get back to the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in 2019. New Zealand finished second at the FIBA U17 Oceania Championship 2017 to qualify for the FIBA U18 Asia Championship 2018, from which four teams will advance to the U19 global event.

Cameron could not play in the U17 Oceania tournament in Guam since it started a day after the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup ended. And he said the game against hosts Guam was a bit nerve-racking - as Guam trailed by just eight points with two minutes to play.

"I was pretty nervous really, but I had faith in my team," Cameron said.

And the 6ft 3in (1.90m) guard was clear in saying his plans for next summer include the U18 Asian tournament.

"I expect to be there," he said. "I am very motivated. I want to lead the team."

Sounds just like his father.

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