BOSTON — Three-year-old Jordan Walsh didn’t want to let go of his mom on his first day of preschool.
Then, he got into hoops.
“He picks up the basketball, which was almost twice his size, and he goes up to the basket and he puts it in,” his mother, Sandra Walsh, told CelticsBlog. “He never played before — this was preschool. And he just kept playing with it and it was like mom wasn’t there.”
It’s a familiar tale: at a very young age, a future NBA player exhibits a natural inclination toward the sport they’ll ultimately make a living playing.