Amid recruting decision, Trae Young playing it Smart

Posted Jul 15, 2016
Trae Young, still sweaty after a USA Basketball U18 training camp practice, answered a phone call from another reporter who wanted to know the same thing so many of them do: What school will he pick, and when will he do so? "It's been crazy," his father, Rayford Young, said as he watched from the Strake Jesuit gymnasium bleachers. But the father also helped engineer this. (Houston Chronicle)

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