During a coming-soon podcast we did with Shannon Brown’s father Chris, we learned that during Shannon’s freshman year, his father received a call from Proviso East High School asking him to come on down to the Maywood, Ill., location.
When Chris, a police sergeant, showed up, he saw that his son had smashed one of the school’s backboards with a dunk. Yeah, he was a bit concerned about the prospect of paying for it, but he couldn’t deny a bit of pride crept in.
As it were, Proviso East - home of Michael Finley, Doc Rivers, Reggie Jordan, Brown’s teammate Dee Brown and others - saw a 6-foot something freshman, not a visiting monster like Dwight Howard, smash the glass.
Apparently a 44.5 inch vertical helps?
Stay tuned later this week for the podcast.
