Dwight Powell stood in front of more than 100 student-athletes at Paul Quinn College, telling a story he’s told before.
Not that it ever gets easy.
“I lost my mother to cancer when I was 20,” Powell said. “And she kept it to herself. She didn’t share it with me at all – she didn’t want to burden me that she was fighting that battle.”
Then, the Mavericks’ veteran center delivered the most important message to his young audience.
“It is what it is, but I would have loved to have been in that fight with her, regardless if the outcome was the same or not,” Powell said.