Harper gets big assist from Kenyon Murray's family
When they first met four years ago, Kenyon Murray was straight with Demetrius Harper right from the start.
Murray, the former Iowa basketball star, was coach of the Prairie freshman basketball team. Harper, in only his second year in the College Community school district after being expelled from McKinley Middle School with two weeks to go in the seventh grade, was trying out for the team.
“I knew who he was,” Murray says, “that he was supposed to be a pretty good athlete. He was kind of shy. But he kept looking down at his feet when he was talking to me.
“I said that showed disrespect and that he needed to look at people eye-to-eye.”
