“Growing up in Chicago where I’m from, it was tough,” said Liggins. “I stayed in projects my whole life. Just always did things my way. My way in high school. I was the man on the team. I was the John Wall.”
Admiration. My thoughts on DeAndre Liggins. Living for eighteen years in a day to day environment that typically makes a person hard, it took Liggins a year to decide to change from the Liggins he was, to who he is today, someone who Coach Cal thinks can make it to the NBA.
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That change didn’t come without sacrifice from his Grandmother. His grandmother, who raised him, prayed for him daily, telling him to hang in there.
“My freshman year she used to get a lot of phone calls. DeAndre acting up in practice. DeAndre this. And she’d call me. It hurt me,” said Liggins. She would always used to like cry. Crying, so I can’t do this anymore. So my sophomore year I just try to change and I figure if she ain’t getting no calls, she knows I’m fine. She knows I’m fine.”
Liggins took a week off after UK lost to West Virginia, then got right back in the gym shooting 300 shots a day.
From a bad apple, to “the” example, DeAndre Liggins…
Go Cats!!!
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