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Spent the evening with Scoop and his extended family at the home of a mutual friend. Two comments:
1) Scoop looks fabulous. He has lost about 30 lbs, the result of intense workouts the past few months. He will spend a few days in Syracuse this week, working out with Mike Hopkins and GMac before leaving for California for more workouts and meetings with his new agent. He knows it will be a tough road, but he is so committed to his dream of playing somewhere at the next level.
2) His extended family is eye-opening to one who grew up in a very different environment. Parents, spouses/friends of parents, half-sibllings, cousins, distant cousins, children of cousins, his grandmother who has legally adopted one of her granddaughters after the child's mother was murdered (she's a wonderful 9-year-old whom I wanted to kidnap) and other relationships too complex to explain. I suspect most of us here grew up in fairly conventional white middle-income environments (as I did). Scoop's family is this loving, sprawling group of delightful people, most of whom live tough lives in rough inner-city neighborhoods. And let me emphasize the word "loving." It was wonderful being part of their family for the evening.
1) Scoop looks fabulous. He has lost about 30 lbs, the result of intense workouts the past few months. He will spend a few days in Syracuse this week, working out with Mike Hopkins and GMac before leaving for California for more workouts and meetings with his new agent. He knows it will be a tough road, but he is so committed to his dream of playing somewhere at the next level.
2) His extended family is eye-opening to one who grew up in a very different environment. Parents, spouses/friends of parents, half-sibllings, cousins, distant cousins, children of cousins, his grandmother who has legally adopted one of her granddaughters after the child's mother was murdered (she's a wonderful 9-year-old whom I wanted to kidnap) and other relationships too complex to explain. I suspect most of us here grew up in fairly conventional white middle-income environments (as I did). Scoop's family is this loving, sprawling group of delightful people, most of whom live tough lives in rough inner-city neighborhoods. And let me emphasize the word "loving." It was wonderful being part of their family for the evening.