Nineteen days before Clippers point guard Patrick Beverley was born, his mother walked across the stage at her high school graduation and received her diploma.
Lisa Beverley was voluminous with child beneath a flowing, myrtle green robe that might as well have been stitched from wool.
“It was so hot,” she recalled Saturday at the United Center, where her son, now 31, participated in the All-Star Skills Challenge.
It was practically July — June 23, 1988, to be exact — due to a four-week Chicago Teachers Union strike at the beginning of the school year that had bumped everything back.