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Message: [QUOTE="Madmannsucks, post: 3089254, member: 8627"] Yeah...he is an insult to all those people that worked hard. How could he relate. Growing up in a single parent home in Compton. Playing hoops for 4 years at UConn while earning a degree. Bouncing around the CBA with a series of 10 day NBA contracts Ollie was born in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas']Dallas, Texas[/URL] to parents Fletcher and Dorothy Ollie and grew up in the rough neighborhood of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Central_Los_Angeles']South Central Los Angeles[/URL]. When Ollie was 7, his parents divorced and his father moved to Dallas. He spent summers there, cutting lawns and doing other odd jobs so he could be with him for some length of time.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ollie#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] His mother, a school teacher and ordained minister, raised him and his older sisters, Vita and Rhonda, by herself.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ollie#cite_note-4'][4[/URL] I know, how INSULTING. I have been to South Central. It has taken many, many young lives along the way. Although he was only in his second year of coaching, he started with a team subject to sanctions, unable to compete in the NCAA tournament, and still managed to complete the season with a 20–10 record, and followed that with a National Championship.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Ollie#cite_note-Top_50-14'][14][/URL] Yup...again an INSULT. [/QUOTE]