Dee Mitchell has faced a few circumstances that would’ve ended the average player’s basketball career, but Mitchell isn’t the average basketball player.
Mitchell, a walk-on on Oklahoma State’s basketball team, has picked up a new responsibility heading into his junior season aside from being a full-time college student and basketball player: he works at Walmart in Stillwater.
Mitchell chose to pick up the gig, where he stocks shelves and unloads trucks, to help his mother, Cassandra Ford, pay for Mitchell’s tuition.
When Mitchell made the decision to work, he went to OSU coach Mike Boynton thinking his basketball player might be over.