Caris LeVert can’t pinpoint exactly where he got his competitive edge, but he remembers his mom, Kim, mercilessly beating him in tennis. She would drag Caris and Daryl, his younger brother, to courts and never let them win. They last played when Caris was in seventh grade. He isn’t sure he ever won.
“She was pretty good,” said LeVert, the 2016 first-round pick who will enter his third season with the Nets later this year. “I don’t know if we played full games though. … Those games are super-long, so after a while, it’s just like, ‘OK, you got it.