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‘It just hurts': A rookie’s turbulent path to the NBA
By
Tim Bontemps
November 29, 2014 | 9:49pm
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Markel Brown already has accomplished a great deal in his life. He is a former Mr. Basketball in Louisiana, went on to be a four-year contributor at Oklahoma State and now is a rookie guard in the NBA with the Nets.
He just wishes he could have shared some of those achievements with his mother, Antoinette.
“It just hurts,” Brown said, “to only remember seeing your mom in a nursing home.”
Those are Brown’s only memories of his late mother. When he was 3 years old, Antoinette suffered a brain aneurysm that forced her to live in a nursing home until her death in 2006 — and for him and his sister, Moryia, 3 months old at the time, to be taken in by their paternal grandmother, Jerri Mae Eggers.
His father, Damian, has been in and out of prison throughout Brown’s life. His uncle, David, died in February 2007 at 21 when he rushed into a burning home to try and save two elderly women — 106-year-old Annie Guillot and her 79-year-old daughter, Edna Carr.
His cousin, Keiunna Collins, was shot and killed in October of last year at 18.