James Young knew fairly early in his life what he wanted to do and how he would go about doing it.
Basketball, for one, was always the path Young was going to go. He loved football when he was a kid, and his athleticism may have given him a shot to play at a major level had he not received a hint in the seventh grade, in the form of a helmet-jarring hit, to stick with basketball.
“It was like the last play of my first scrimmage,” Young said. “I got picked up and tossed out of bounds. After that I quit. I was a running back and I was pretty good. I had tried going to a couple practices, but it was tough. After that first scrimmage, I couldn’t do it anymore.”
From that point forward, Young knew basketball was his dream. He hasn’t played football since.
