Time for growing up for P.J. Hairston

Posted May 15, 2011
There were no training wheels on Walter’s bike the last time his big brother, P.J., returned home. The 6-year-old riding around in the driveway had shed those constraints of childhood a day earlier, and Samuel Peterson Hairston Jr., a North Carolina basketball signee and Greensboro’s second McDonald’s All-America , felt a bit wistful about missing the milestone, another sacrifice for his future. (Greensboro News & Record)

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