This Story About Mitchell Robinson Inviting His High School Coach To Live With Him After His Wife Passed Away Is An All Time Some Things Are Bigger Than Sports Moment

Just a beautiful story from Mitchell Robinson's High School Coach. Normally a catchy headline of an NBA star living with an old man makes you worry. Is the player in trouble? Does he have issues where someone needs to watch over him? All bad things you assume. So I was not expecting to hear why Robinson living with an old man was a good thing tonight, but now that I did, I can't help be consider it heartwarming. 

If you have any kind of pulse, or ever played any kind of sport you have a massive massive respect for your coaches. I do think a bad coach can teach you as many lessons as a good coach, but more often than not (at least when I was suited up playing) my coaches were good, respectable, dedicated role models in your life. You respected their dedication of time, you respected that they pushed you, you loved that they taught you, and you were thankful they took care of you. If you get lucky enough in your life one day you get to pay it back. I think of that famous photo meme of John Wooden and Kareem. 

Some of my best coaches I'm still in touch with to this day, you have a lot more in common as grown men as you do as teenagers, but you never lose sight of the fact that at a time when you were your most impressionable and needed it the most they helped teach you a game you love, and were a good influence in your life. Mitchell Robinson did what anyone who loved their coach would do, he took care of him asa payback for the coach taking care of him earlier in his life. 

Just an absolutely beautiful story, and one that makes Robinson an extremely likable guy, and should be a lesson for all why sports are so much more than putting a ball in a net. It shapes the people we become for the rest of our lives.

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