Gabe Brown - All for you, Dad

Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images Wearing the green and white means a little more for Gabe Brown.Gabe Brown was sitting in his room and he was doing what many 14 year old kids like to do with a free summer evening. He was just hanging out, watching cartoons and thinking about boyhood stuff. All of a sudden there was a knock on the door and his father Charles entered. He tapped his son on the shoulder and told him that he had just finished watching some college basketball. His favorite team, the Michigan State Spartans, had played against the Michigan Wolverines, their most bitter rivals. But he wasn‘t as much concerned with the game itself as he was with the future of his own son. “One day I want you to play for Michigan State,” Charles said, looking young Gabe directly into his eyes. “Tom Izzo is one of the greatest basketball coaches in America and I want you to play for him. He‘s making pros.” These words stuck in Gabe Brown‘s mind forever, especially after the day he realized that his father would never knock on his door again.

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