MINNEAPOLIS — Midway through his freshman season at Michigan State, Gabe Brown was ripped up by sadness and grief.
It was his father’s birthday.
“There’s not a day where I don’t think about you dad,” Brown posted on Instagram on Jan.3, his father’s birthday. “When I lost you, (I) felt like I lost everything! You the one that put it in me and when you left it almost left me! Man I miss you like crazy man.”
Before every game this season, Gabe talked to his dad, Charles Brown, who died in 2016.