Ishua Benjamin was playing professional basketball in Ireland when he got the call from his pregnant wife Lisa back in Raleigh. Their son Jalen was coming any day.
Benjamin was caught in a snowstorm and made it Raleigh five days later – but yet still two days early – to welcome Jalen into the world.
A few years later, when Lisa called Ishua to tell him about how Jalen scored 20-something points in his first recreational basketball game. That’s when Ishua knew it was time to retire from basketball, and he thought that meant everything.
“I said I’m done.