For three months, his bed was the back seat of a Ford Focus. As a teen, Jaleel McLaughlin went home to a McDonald’s parking lot — a five-star speedster living out of a four-door sedan.
“You know, there (have) been games where I’ve had a great game and I’d come home to nothing,” the undrafted Broncos rookie recalled Tuesday after practice at Dove Valley. “I’d come home to sleeping in the car.
“So that’s why … I don’t never get too high and never get too low. Because the unexpected can happen.”
If your pulse doesn’t lambada whenever McLaughlin touches the ball, check your heart.