Brandon Mason can recall a couple years ago walking into the Riverpoint Sports and Wellness gym each morning at 6 a.m. The pre-dawn workouts he conducted with kids were as much about showing a commitment to getting up before their friends and classmates as it was honing their basketball skills.
But he and the kids in his breakfast club were never the first ones there.
“Shane (Douma-Sanchez) would be finishing his workout and leaving,” said Mason, the former New Mexico State Aggie player, UNM assistant coach and now President of the Albuquerque Basketball Club.
“He was already done.