For both brothers, it has been a long road getting to this game. Their playing days together started as soon as they were old enough to hold a basketball. Their mom was a three-sport athlete in college, and both of their parents played basketball professionally in Germany. Devonte, the younger of the pair, recalls watching Devince take on his dad in the driveway before he was old enough to play.
“(Basketball) is something that grew on both of us because our whole family played,” Devonte said.
The Boykins played on the same high school team for one year at East Rutherford in N.