Every Christmas Eve for the past three years has begun on the hardwood floors of a gym for the Ryckbosch family. One ball, one rim, three people, and a game of 21. One former professional basketball player, a current Division I player, and a big brother who’s taller and talks trash. Somehow big brother always finds a way to be at the center of the match-up.
“I always play it up like I’m the hidden star because I am a tiny bit taller than him. So I trash talk like crazy,” Steven Ryckbosch said, brother of DePaul forward, Peter Ryckbosch.