“As far as adversity, coming up from Nicetown, that’s all you know. The inner city, that’s all you know. If you’re from the city, you don’t know anything else. That adversity sometimes is not really looked at as adversity when you’re young. It’s just looked at as your environment. You navigate it and that’s what makes you who you are. Other than injuries and learning the playbook, I really didn’t see anything as adversity. I just looked at it as things that were preparing me for what was ahead.” -Jahri Evans
Life of a Saint: Jahri Evans
Jahri Evans jested, “I’m from Nicetown, Philadelphia, which is not a nice town.