 Posted: Tue 13:33, 03 Sep 2013 Post subject: Moe Harkless drafted by Philadelphia 76ers believe |
|
| Moe Harkless drafted by Philadelphia 76ers believes family is first
The ultimate local boy done good and maybe the best player to come out of New York City since Ron Artest Harkless was a prep star in Queens, then played one year of college ball at St. John before declaring for the draft in March. In addition to boisterous gang of Johnnies fans who made the trek across the Hudson River, the 19-year-old hometown kid had a veritable entourage of his own one comprised mostly of family in tow for Thursday evening proceedings. And as Harkless crossed the stage and shook the commissioner hand, soaking in the most important moment of his life to date, the cheers only grew louder, the loudest among them coming from the three women who raised him: His mother, Rosa; his grandmother, Barbara; and his big sister, Shakima. excited about just being here, the bashful Harkless said later of his mother tearful reaction. team didn't matter; she was really emotional and she's probably out there still crying. I'm definitely glad I could make her happy and make my dreams come true. career in basketball wasn always the ultimate goal for Harkless, though,Roger Vivier Flats, and as a kid growing up in the hoops Mecca, just blocks from the end of the E-train line in South Jamaica, Moe was more drawn to soccer, football and even chess, making his ascension to lottery pick that much more unexpected. I always saw Moe becoming a lawyer or a doctor,http://woolrichoutletdeutschland.halod.com/, Rosa said, beaming at the very mention of her son. is intelligent, he really, really smart and he always did really,http://rogervivieroutlets.webmium.com/, really well in school. He didn even begin to really love the game of basketball until he was 13 or 14. Harkless came to recognize his calling,Woolrich Damen deutschland, and after being named the Queens High School Player of the Year by the New York Daily News following his junior year at Forest Hills High School, Harkless transferred to South Kent, a boarding school 85 miles away in Connecticut. There,Cheap Roger Vivier Outlet Shop, Harkless averaged 27.2 points, 13.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists,Duvetica Deutschland, 3.1 blocks and 1.6 steals per game as a senior, earning the 6-foot-9,Woolrich Herren outlet, 207-pound small forward a No. John in a decision that was as much about family as it was about basketball; Harkless joined the Red Storm mostly to be near his sister, who had just been diagnosed with cervical cancer for the second time. had offers to go to all these different colleges, and he turned them down and went to St. John so that he could be close to me and close to my mom and be here for the family,sell discount 2013 merrell footwear size chart online store, and that meant a lot to me, said Shakima, who is now 24 years old and, after two rounds of chemo and a partial cervicectomy,cheap soccer cleats, cancer-free. Call it Moe unspoken way of showing support, because, truth be told, he the strong, silent type and didn and still doesn like bringing it up. didn speak much to me about it, but I know it bothered him a lot, Shakima said. guess he didn want to worry me, so we just kind of pretended that I didn have cancer. It was never discussed between me and him. It worried him,Woolrich Arctic Jacket deutschland, but he didn let it wear off on me. He held it together so that I wouldn worry. much like Moe tried to protect Shakima, Rosa did the same for Moe. mom kind of kept it a secret from me for a while, because she didn want me to worry about it,kevin durant shoes for sale, but once I found out, it was heartbreaking, Harkless said. didn know what to think. I just wanted (Shakima) to be better. But I glad she got through it, I was with her the whole time, and she healthy now. his one season at St. John Harkless would make it a point to make the 10-minute trip home from campus at least a couple times a week,http://merrellfootwearsizechart.webmium.com/, no matter how busy his basketball schedule got. But he wouldn come to the too-small apartment to worry about his sister or dwell on her illness but rather, just to be there in the presence of a huge family with plenty of affection to go around. After all, in addition to Rosa, Shakima and Barbara who took care of the kids while Rosa worked as a waitress and bartender to pay the bills the Harkless household is also home to Moe seven-year-old brother, Tyler, and Shakima three children, 14-month-old twins Madison and Phoenix and six-year-old Mekhi. call them both my little brothers, they kind of look up to me, Harkless said of Tyler and Mekhi. is probably my biggest fan. runs around school talking about me,http://duveticaukoutlet.halod.com/, and tells all his little friends about what I doing. He comes to all my games, and if he not there, he watches on TV. He real supportive, and he wants to be just like me. It makes me want to keep doing the right things for him; I want to set a good example. They kind of messed their lives up. And growing up, I saw older people who were still like that, and I didn want to be like that. So I just had tunnel vision and focused on what I did. if he ever strayed, even for a second, his mother and grandmother had no problem reminding him of his priorities. mother was strict, and my grandma was stricter, but it wasn strict as far as we couldn do things it was more strict in that we had to do positive things, Shakima said. (Moe or I) want to go to a friend house and play games, that was OK, but just hanging out in the street and running around, no, that wasn allowed at all. he go to the mail, but then he wouldn check the mail; he put his sneakers on and go play basketball. Moe would come home late from the park, and that when he get in the most trouble but given the alternatives,Woolrich Deutschland Woolrich Arctic Jacket Woolrich Damen Woolrich Herren outlet deutschland, missing curfew wasn exactly the worst a kid could do. remember I had to be in the house by 8:30 one day, and I came in the house at like 9:00 and my grandmother spanked me, Harkless said, with a wide grin. didn hurt, but it just funny because she basically is like the sheriff of the house. also may be the biggest fan of the bunch in this basketball-crazed family. A Michael Jordan die-hard during His Airness heyday with the Bulls, Barbara has now shifted her allegiance, and these days, her grandson is her favorite player. The same can be said, however, for 7-year-old Tyler not yet,Roger Vivier Flats Roger Vivier Sale, anyway. said one day, know, Moe is going to the NBA, and usually when guys go to the NBA, they become friends with all the other guys in the NBA, so I need Moe to introduce me to Michael Jordan, Rosa recalled.相关的主题文章： http://www.tricklife.com/forum/showthread.php?p=11525121#post11525121 http://www.turniej08fifa08.fora.pl/siec-hamachi,15/voices-underground-win-nick-kelly-performs-see,6605.html#6917 http://h10h.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1127025#post1127025 http://www.almarol.fora.pl/deadlands,10/d-252-sseldorf-baskets-2012-nike-blazer-dibb,5494.html#6136 http://vishivay.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=944842#944842 http://www.macrobidvhnst.fora.pl/poor-little-side-effects-of-drug-allegra-xpressions-weren-sildenafil-viagra-and-the-heart-wants-you-sufficient,1/crash-my-deville-nike-blazer-swyx,5898.html#5938 http://www.tidesoffortune.fora.pl/archiwum,20/pretty-ballerinas-shops-in-berlin-nike-blazer-bktm,7513.html#7599 http://www.compazinegtccv.fora.pl/what-say-watery-smile-work-during-quiet-breath-ambien-strengths-loove-you-iscouraged,1/2012-from-the-sunday-independent-spun5-nike-blazer,7991.html#8017 http://www.guardiansofgrail.fora.pl/general,12/pedophile-guilty-on-23-counts-nike-blazer-ojky,10728.html#10916 http://www.vioxxyptxz.fora.pl/alfred-frisk-help-the-walking-corpse-hiding-growing-marijuana-plants-sleep-through-onata,1/3-days-after-frying-fish-spun1-nike-blazer-yzou,4858.html#4884 http://www.cetreria.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=70062 http://www.combiventlwv.fora.pl/combivent-inhalation,1/new-opera-festival-to-offer-exciting-performances,5868.html#5920 http://www.diprolenezkxei.fora.pl/alfie-there-teeth-bared-remember-that-thing-felt-comment,1/can-the-samsung-galaxy-s4-live-up-to-the-s3-nike-b,18305.html#18479 http://www.loltestab.fora.pl/forum-testowe,1/iraqi-kept-in-custody-after-throwing-shoes-at-bush,5975.html#5999 http://www.glucophagemwnbi.fora.pl/belle-that-just-one-feared-you-herever-the-scars,1/females-high-top-sneakers-2013-nike-blazer-lpur,16889.html#17205 |
|
