A Mother’s Sacrifices Impacted Brendan Haywood’s Career

Posted May 18, 2015
Brendan Haywood has 14 teammates on the Cleveland Cavaliers. Growing up, Team Haywood was two strong. Brendan was raised in a single-parent family by his mother, Barbara. They lived in New York and moved to Jamestown, North Carolina where Barbara worked as a librarian to provide for her son, an only child, and pay for their three-bedroom, middle class home. (Basketball Insiders)

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