Jamal Merrell
👤 Speaker
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Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
I'll always just say he passed away.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
And just say I lost him in college and that kind of shaped my whole college.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
That came along with my father.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
He kept consistently coaching us in football.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
So we pretty much gravitated towards it.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
But playing basketball, he allowed us to play basketball.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
So it was double sports.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
But I was better at basketball.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
My grandfather is like 6'6", right under like 6'7-ish.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
And we got our height from him.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
So I probably like junior year, I realized like, holy shit, like I'm crushing this basketball thing.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
I had multiple scholarships from, like, Maryland, Louisville, Duke, a lot of schools that's, like, popular right now.
Barely Famous
Beyond The Game With Jamal Merrell
And I made that decision, like, man, I can't leave my brother.