PEORIA, Ill.
Big Sean is a Detroit rapper, discovered by Kanye West, who roots for the Detroit Lions and has almost 8 million followers on Twitter.
Steve Dickie is a retired minister from California who serves as counselor, listener and inspiration for Wichita State’s men’s basketball team and is known as their character coach.
With that unlikely pairing, Shocker guard Landry Shamet is coping with an injury that halted a promising freshman season after three games. Big Sean contributed lyrics from the song “Patience,” which Shamet chose as his “one word” during the team’s annual exercise with Dickie recently.