Xavier Tillman arrived on the video conference call with reporters “just dressing up my superhero here.”
He carefully tied a bow around the neck of a tiny, braided-hair person in front of him. It sure seemed to be his 3-year-old daughter, Ayanna, but no one could really be sure of her true identity hiding behind the mask and cape of this little Supergirl.
Her dad knows a thing or two about playing a crusader and champion on the basketball court. But in the past five months, Tillman went from being the Robin to Cassius Winston’s Batman to getting the first chance to simply be a 21-year-old husband and father of two for the first time.