Jason Peters was surrounded by talent ever since high school. This is a man who played a playoff basketball game against Treadwell’s Penny Hardaway and Elliot Perry. A man whose father is a legend in the Mid-South. A man who coached Jerry West’s son, Johnny, on the Marc Gasol teams in 2001 and 2002.
Oh and by the way, Johnny West would go on to play for Bob Huggins’s Mountaineers. Even his dad Jerry West, famously known as “The Logo”, would stop by at practice from time to time to give Peters a few pointers.
Jason Peters is the man who knew Marc Gasol could be something special before anyone else did:
“He could shoot from the outside.