Kassius Robertson was frustrated and well, mothers know best, right?
He had come to Missouri to play his final season of college basketball alongside the nation’s top recruit. Four years at Canisius College couldn't get him into the Big Dance, so maybe Michael Porter Jr. could.
Eleven days after the season started, Porter had back surgery and it looked like he wouldn't return. Robertson called his mom in Toronto.
“It’s your time to step up,” Shannon Robertson told her son. “You have to.”
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