BIGGER THAN YOU

“WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I MODELED MY GAME AFTER SHAQ BECAUSE I WAS ALWAYS THAT BULLY TYPE…ALWAYS BIGGER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE.”

RED 1! RED 1! Kofi Cockburn, then a freshman in high school, heard the play called but stood frozen. It was his first ever organized basketball scrimmage. His first ever experience playing within a system. His first time ever competing in front of a serious crowd.

“Yeah, it was horrible,” Kofi, who just finished his junior year and is now ranked No. 23 on ESPN’s Class of 2019 prospect list, remembers with a smile. “I had no idea what I was doing, basically. I was just nervous.”

The 6-11, 248-pound big man had recently travelled over 1,500