Scary? The NBA playoffs aren’t scary. Scary is getting a call, when your name is Cade Cunnigham and you’re 16 years old, that you are going to be a father. Scary is having just moved away from your family, halfway across the country, to play elite high school basketball, and suddenly learning that life is no longer just about you, and that everything you planned could be derailed.
“I was terrified,” Cunningham admits. “Scared to death. I thought my world was coming down on me.”
He spent the following months balancing his sport, his high school classes and his impending fatherhood.