CHARLOTTE — Nowadays, he’s an urban legend.
Kids in the neighborhood ask for his autograph. They wear his jerseys. They want to be like him.
But in 2010, Kennedy Meeks was just a West Charlotte High School first-year trying to get through tryouts like the rest of the team.
“He comes over, he puts his arm around me and says, ‘Coach, I think I’m just going to play JV,’” Meeks' former coach Baronton Terry said. “I sat out there for a little longer, and he finished his laps and came back to me and said, ‘Oh no, I was just jokin’.