Sports writer Kerry Eggers recently announced that he will be writing a biography of the late Portland Trail Blazers’ Jerome Kersey. Kersey passed in 2015 due to a blood clot. In Eggers’ announcement, he noted that Kersey became a Portlander over his 11 seasons with the Blazers, choosing to make Portland his home after his time in the league was finished. But it is how he got to the NBA that is so interesting, according to Eggers.
Jerome’s story is compelling. He was raised primarily by grandparents in a small, rural town.