Few people can credit a sport to changing their life more than Brayon Blake.
Basketball became more than just a hobby for — a junior forward on the Idaho men’s basketball team — It became a way of survival.
Blake spent his early years in Seattle. His father was absent for a large part of his childhood. His mother did her best to provide for him, his two brothers and one sister. For Blake, growing up in the Emerald City was anything but easy.
“It was very challenging, especially in my neighborhood. I was on the East side and the South side.