Wes Moore

But for the most part, they supported other candidates.

I mean, honestly, I don't know if I...

Well, you know what happened was I was a pretty good basketball player in high school and was getting recruited by colleges and all that kind of stuff.

And I decided to join the Army out of high school.

And it was kind of a curious thing.

They're like, you know, you have scholarship offers to go to colleges, but you chose to join the army at 17 years old.

And it was kind of twofold for me.

One was that I was good, but I wasn't that good.

And like, for example, like I played against folks like, you know, Kobe Bryant was in my same graduating class in Pennsylvania.

And we're in, you know, he played out in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

You played against him.

So, yeah.

So, yeah.

So not only I have a great Kobe Bryant story about the time I actually first got to first got to meet him.

But you play against guys like that.

You play against guys like, you know, Stefan Marbury, who were in the AAU circuit.

And you just realize, like, they're just better.

Like for them, the game was easy.

For them, the game was smooth.

For me, the game was hard and it was just so much easier for them.