KALEB WILSON - Player/Assistant, Brookline High School
Stats (Last 3 Games since return): 14.7 PPG, 9.3 APG, 5.0 RPG
Team Record since return: 3-0
Drills Designed: 7
The leather of the basketball felt like a homecoming. It was different now. The pressure that had once made it feel like a lead weight was gone, replaced by a simple, profound gratitude. Dribbling it in the Brookline High gym, the sound echoing in the empty space, was a meditation.
His return hadn't been a grand announcement. It had been an organic, inevitable pull. After two weeks as a volunteer assistant, the geometry of the game had started calling to him not as a coach, but as a player. He missed the sweat, the grind, the feel of a crossover, the arc of a perfect jumper. He'd realized he didn't hate basketball. He hated the cage others had built around it. So he decided to tear the cage down.
He went to Coach Evans. "I want to come back," he'd said. "But it has to be different."
