Jamal Merrell

But at the same time, I didn't play basketball my senior year.

So I never forget my high school coach, Coach Sobo, was like, man, you're it.

Like, you're pretty much one of the top players in the state, if not the nation.

You're like 22-something points away from your 1,000 points.

You should play your senior year.

And I never played.

100%.

Now having kids, I'm like, go for it.

Shoot for the moon.

Yes.

You can play it.

So I didn't know what I didn't know.

So injury.

A lot of high school kids, if they played our senior year, it was a...

It is a known factor that you possibly might get hurt and then the colleges will pull your scholarship.

So you can go from a full ride to have a full scholarship.

So at the time, my mom and dad didn't have the money for college twins at the same time.

So me and my brother, we factored that in like, wow, two scholarships, if we don't get a scholarship, how can mother and father pay for our college?

So we were thinking long-term rather than short-term.

But yeah, if I could go back, I would play both sports.