Former Duke basketball player and current assistant Chris Carrawell makes no excuses. No, he just gets the job done.
When he was growing up in a rough St. Louis neighborhood without a father figure in his home — containing only two beds and no kitchen table — that he shared with his three siblings and single mother, he could have easily chosen the route of many of his peers by joining a gang, selling drugs, and likely ending up either six feet underground or behind bars as a result.
But he didn’t.
And when he was in high school, he could have given up playing basketball after suffering shoulder injuries that prevented him from being able to fully extend his arms above his head.