Teenage basketball player Nahziah Carter is a “long and athletic wing with significant upside,” according to ESPN.com.
He’s also Jay-Z’s nephew, but Carter seems to be making a bit of a name for himself in the world of elite youth hoops.
This weekend Carter dunked on two of the nation’s top basketball prospects. Here he is throwing down over Bol Bol, the son of former NBA star Manute Bol and a player we recently wrote about.
Now, there’s a kernel of a bigger, weirder concept at play here.
Jay-Z famously came from nothing, selling narcotics in the housing projects of Brooklyn before he conquered the rap and business worlds. Manute Bol also lived a challenging life, emigrating from Sudan to the U.S. thanks to his basketball talent but continuously searching for ways to aid his warn-torn homeland until he passed away in 2010. Read more…
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