Steve Francis on Dwight Howard - Above the Rim Podcast

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Timestamped. He also had a few former Magic teammates on there: Keyon Dooling, Keith Bogans, Courtney Lee. Darius Miles fell thru too

Bro looking healthy (II)

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After his mother (Brenda) died of cancer in 1995, his grandmother became a parent figure to him. He stopped playing basketball after his mother died.[4] His father served 20 years in federal prison for bank robbery. Francis later described his stepfather, a garbage collector, as his best friend. As a youth, Francis received food stamps and lived in an apartment with 18 people.
Francis began working for drug dealers at ten years old and began selling crack cocaine on the street as a teenager during the American crack epidemic. He attended six high schools and played in a total of two high school basketball games. He dropped out of school at 18 years old after his mother died.
After Francis left professional basketball and his stepfather committed suicide, he began drinking heavily.
Dude has been through a lot.
 

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Dude has been through a lot.

Yeah.


Going to that JUCO in Texas changed his life and helped him get on track to the league

2 players that really wouldn't have made it if somebody didn't force them to go to a JUCO out they state is FRANCIS and SKIP

Rafer is another one that had all the talent and barely played in high school. Him going to juco in Cali changed everything for his career.

Juco done saved some dudes.
 

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Dude has been through a lot.
Yeah a lot of those DC area athletes be going through it. West, Beasley, Francis.. it never when I went to college and one of the athletic coaches said back in the day , a lot of dc athletes had a bad reputations for being hard to coach and deal with, basically knuckleheads.
 

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Dude has been through a lot.

Wow. I never knew about all that

I dont know if anybody else caught it, but Dwight said “we gone get you a shot” and Steve was like “I don’t need a shot of nothin”and Dwight kinda corrected himself. Definitely seems like Steve is sober now which is dope. Because he was wildin publicly for a few years post retirement
 
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