In early January 2018, University of Texas Men's Basketball Coach Shaka Smart gathered his players to share some hard news with them. Their teammate, Andrew Jones, had been diagnosed with leukemia. Thankfully, the course of treatment that young Mr. Jones underwent at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas proved successful. The redshirt junior (he was granted a medical redshirt for the 2017-18 and the 2018-19 seasons) from Irving, Texas is cancer-free, working towards his degree, and playing basketball for the Longhorns.
This past Saturday was the third anniversary of Coach Smart's sharing the news of Andrew Jones' leukemia diagnosis with his teammates and this brave young man picked one hell of a way to mark the occasion:
I'm not crying. You're crying...and smiling.
Me too.
-AK
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