“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” — “The Pursuit of Happyness”
As soon as Taurean Prince got to Brooklyn, got to feel the Nets family vibe, he knew this was home. And after overcoming first a broken home and then not having one, he knows the true meaning of the word better than most.
After Prince’s parents, Anthony and Tamiyko, split and he chose to live with his father, they found themselves living in a Salvation Army when they could, or on friends’ sofas, or even a couple of days on the street.