Oklahoma City Thunder veteran Alex Caruso recently shared some cool family history about his father Mike playing for the late Eddie Sutton in college/himself being the ballboy at Texas A&M.
(via Oklahoma City Thunder):
“He played for Eddie Sutton when he was at Creighton. He vividly remembers practices with no basketballs, especially beginning of the year. The ball rack would be out there and then practice would start, and Coach Sutton would just roll them out and they’d play defense for two hours. He has some influence from him. I was a ball boy for Texas A&M growing up, so I would show up to the games two and a half hours early with him. I’d shoot for as many minutes as I could before I had to start rebounding for the guys, do my job on the court during the game, and then me and him would head out and we’d listen to the local radio guys and we would just talk hoops on the way home.
“We’d talk about the game, we’d talk about how we played, how the other team played. Looking back on it, I think that’s probably where a lot of my understanding of the game came from. It made it fast track that a little bit because that was 10-years-old. It might not be as in-depth as I’m talking now about the game, but basic stuff then up until… Honestly it was probably before 10. It was probably like 8 to like 14. So yeah, stuff like that. Just watching basketball with him and talking through the game and having a brain to pick.”
