Dewanna King tries to stick to non-basketball talk. This time, though, she couldn’t help herself.
It was the night before Kansas’ 85-81 overtime victory over Duke in the Elite Eight, and King — KU guard Devonté Graham’s mother — asked him a question at the Omaha Marriott Downtown Hotel before the biggest game of his career.
“Are you nervous?”
King laughed when retelling his response.
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“He told me I was acting like the reporters,” she said, her voice scratchy because of all the screaming she’d just done in the game.