This isn’t for you. It’s for him. Maybe her? Them.
This starts with a boy and ends with a man. There is youth and homemade chicken wings and loss and a silver heart and peace and “Mud.” And two loving mothers.
Maybe this is for them.
But first the boy.
Call him Brice, or Easy B or Jon Johnson. That’s his real name, Jonathan Brice Johnson.
Let’s go with Brice. Now he’s a senior on the North Carolina men’s basketball team, prepping for his last home matchup against Duke. UNC’s misunderstood leader. The subject of so much criticism .