When Caris LeVert was 15 years old, a high school sophomore living right outside Columbus, Ohio, he was preparing one day to go to Easter services. That morning, he went downstairs in his home, where he found his brother, Darryl, who was screaming and crying.
Their father, Darryl, was laying on the floor, motionless.
Darryl’s heart had given out after 46 years of life.
Their mother, Kim, was in Washington, D.C. visiting relatives, so it was up to Caris to call 911 and then to call his mother. He broke the terrible news.
“Dad is dead,” he said through a veil of tears.
It was time to grow up fast.
A few years later, Kim was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
LeVert, who was acquired by the Pacers from the Brooklyn Nets last week in a four-way deal that saw Victor Oladipo sent to Houston, speaks freely of his family’s terrible circumstances. It wasn’t always something he could or would do; after…
