He can hang a suit, navigate a traffic circle, thwart the pick-and-roll with a hard show. All of which counts as progress. Yet even now, at the ripe old age of 22, some things still baffle Kwame Brown.
Take tuition. His decision to bypass college aside, Brown knows the value of a good education and wants the best for his 2-year-old daughter, Kwameeri, and 4-year-old son, Jaden.
That said, talk of the tab leaves the Washington Wizards forward shaking his head, echoing the silent lament of parents everywhere.
That much? For preschool?
"It costs so much," Brown says. "You don't even want to know what I'm paying for day care."
Brown laughs. No worries. Fact is, he can afford it. Three years after Washington made him the first prep player picked No. 1 in the NBA Draft, the Brunswick, Ga., native is emerging from his own primary education, and at less cost than once feared.
In his initial home exhibition game, Brown bounced a ball off his foot. Never dribble again, coaches told him. Brown struggled down low, manhandled by stronger, savvier opponents. He lacked conditioning, footwork. The game was too fast.
Brown's first practice. Misplayed pick-and-roll. Former coach Doug Collins halts the action. Kwame, he says, you have to make a hard show.
Great. What's a hard show?
"Kwame didn't really know the game," teammate Brendan Haywood says. "That first year, you were on your own. If you didn't know it, you weren't going to learn it."
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The fact that he has a child, let alone 2 kids was well kept by the organization, he didn't pull a Shawn Kemp, so basically he had a kid his first year in the league if his son is 4 years old.
Couldn't have put it better myself, so true. So very true....
