College Basketball Is Family Tradition For Drake Senior Korver
By ANWAR S. RICHARDSON
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA - Most families hand down china, jewelry or furniture from one generation to another, but the Korvers prefer to pass along shooting advice.
Drake senior forward Klayton Korver comes from a long line of basketball players. His father, mother and two uncles played at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Another uncle played at Northwestern College, older brother Kyle played at Creighton and is now with the Utah Jazz, and younger brother Kaleb is a freshman on the Creighton basketball team.
Korver scored 21 points during Drake’s dramatic 101-99 overtime loss against Western Kentucky in first-round play of the NCAA Tournament. He talked about his basketball lineage before the game.
Anwar: Is there any other family that can beat yours in basketball?
Klayton: I’m sure there are some that are more athletic than us, but when it comes to shooting, I want to say we can hold our own against most people.
Anwar: What if I combined two different Miller families? Cheryl and Reggie Miller, plus Percy Miller Sr. (a k a Master P.) and Percy Miller Jr. (a k a Lil’ Romeo, who plays at the University of Southern California)?
Klayton: That would be tough right there. I’d have to give the nod to them. They have a little more experience.
Anwar: Can anyone in your family out-rap Lil’ Romeo?
Klayton: No, not at all. Not even close.
Anwar: Could the Korvers win a dance-off against the Jackson family?
Klayton: We can’t dance at all. That’s why we all just stick to basketball.
Anwar: Since your mom dropped 73 points in a high school game, what is the most points you scored?
Klayton: I think I might have scored 30 one time. My older brother might have scored 36. She has us by double. Mom runs the house.
Tags: basketball, drake
I think he was talking about real sports.
Correct, he was the coach’s son and I’m 95% sure he took them to the sweet sixteen that year.
It really depends on who the player is. I could watch Kobe and McGrady tear defenses up all day. Shaq, on the other hand, is a different story. I hated the lakers when they won three-in-a-row, but I always liked Shaq’s personality and thought his public image was one of the league’s bests assets. That being said, it was boring as hell watching him barrel through defenders to get his 20th lay-up of the game. I like him more now that he’s less dominant and more human.
Yeah man, props to those propa English speekas! Thas’ a whole ‘notha level!(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
Do you have a lot of experience playing “sports”?
This happens all the time. Bah, reddit people dont know sports.
Through ludicrous fouling and other time-stopped techniques, they managed to make 45 seconds into 3 minutes and 30 seconds! The only explanation is that they constructed some sort of high powered rocket and brought it near the speed of light to sufficiently allow them time to win. Which means, of course, that that was one hell of an exciting college basketball game!
Downvoted for being sports-related (and because it wasn’t the the greatest finish in college basketball history by any stretch of the imagination).
And everyone was on LSD.
I would like to congratulate you on using “a whole other” rather than “a whole nother.” When people make mistakes it’s so easy to jump on them, but we so frequently ignore people who buck the trend by using proper English constructions.Thank you.