Growing up in Chicago as the son of “Hoop Dreams” star and a prep basketball legend in the city, one would think that William Gates Jr. would have been bouncing a basketball at birth, doing everything he could to follow in the oversized footsteps of his father.
Chicago is a basketball city, through and through. Every kid in every neighborhood has dreams of being the next Derrick Rose or the next Jabari Parker, so it would only make sense that being, quite literally, the next William Gates would predetermine his path.
And it did. On Monday, Gates Jr. accepted a scholarship offer from Furman, a small university in Greenville, South Carolina, that plays in the Southern Conference and is nicknamed the Paladins. Only Gates Jr.’s love for and success in the game was no where near as immediate as his father’s.
(link below)
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/09/william-gates-jr-out-of-his-dads-shadow-but-still-living-his-hoop-dreams/
Thursday, May 9, 2013
WILLIAM GATES JR SON OF HOOP DREAMS STAR MAKING HIS NAME
Growing up in Chicago as the son of “Hoop Dreams” star and a prep basketball legend in the city, one would think that William Gates Jr. would have been bouncing a basketball at birth, doing everything he could to follow in the oversized footsteps of his father.
Chicago is a basketball city, through and through. Every kid in every neighborhood has dreams of being the next Derrick Rose or the next Jabari Parker, so it would only make sense that being, quite literally, the next William Gates would predetermine his path.
And it did. On Monday, Gates Jr. accepted a scholarship offer from Furman, a small university in Greenville, South Carolina, that plays in the Southern Conference and is nicknamed the Paladins. Only Gates Jr.’s love for and success in the game was no where near as immediate as his father’s.
(link below)
http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/09/william-gates-jr-out-of-his-dads-shadow-but-still-living-his-hoop-dreams/
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