Man-Child — Seattle’s Shawn Kemp Is Anything But A Little Kid On The Basketball Court (1991)
https://gnbuzz.com/man-child-seattles-shawn-kemp-is-anything-but-a-little-kid-on-the-basketball-court/ By Glenn Nelson The Seattle Times He has an old face, etched with generations of hardship . His eyes, ever widened beneath an often-furrowed brow, sometimes appear as pools of melancholy , gazing backward as much as forward. Then there is the body that unfolds 6 feet, 10 inches, the balance between ambition and temperance in his outlook, and the ripened repertoire of basketball skills. The basso-profundo voice completes the illusion. Yet the maturity of his appearance, his personality and his game is incongruous with reality. Shawn Kemp could easily be mistaken for, say, 31. But that would be 10 years off. In public, Kemp appears most at ease on a basketball court, either plying his trade among men or taking an educational or promotional respite among children. The SuperSonics find Kemp the most willing of their players to volunteer for either. Truth be known, he fits comfortably wi...