Kid intrigued me being from Elkhart and not having much history on him . He seems to have run under the radar in a region where Nic Moore, the Plumlees, Kibiliski and a number of others hogged all the headlines.
Kid is for real ...interesting back story from
MSNBC
Karvel Anderson
Karvel Anderson, a 17-year-old basketball player at Elkhart Memorial High School, knew his only chance was to work hard to develop skills that could land him a spot on a top college team. That’s why he was in the school’s huge gym at 6:15 a.m. many mornings, one of a handful of kids willing to practice layups and endure shirt-soaking scrimmages with Mark Barnhizer, the school’s tough head basketball coach.
“He’s from absolutely as bad a situation as you can find,” said Barnhizer. “But I think he’s got the potential to play at the D1 level.”
That’s no small feat for a kid whose mother went to prison for drug trafficking when he was a freshman, leaving him and his 15-year-old sister, Mylikea, nearly on their own. His dad went to jail when Anderson was 3; he lives now in a tiny rented cottage with his maternal grandparents, Paul and Pamela Adams. Pamela Adams suffers from uncontrollable high blood pressure, fibromyalgia and other ailments that keep her in and out of the hospital.
In March, Karvel Anderson was set to play in a tournament in front of college recruiters, when his 56-year-old grandfather, the family’s sole means of support, abruptly lost his job in the RV industry when work dried up. Instead of attending the tournament, Anderson got a $9.50-an-hour job working for a local recycling company. He was so grateful for the chance to earn money, he didn’t want to ask the owner, Chris Heims, for time off.
“We’re just all taking care of each other,” said Anderson, who wants to play college ball but worries that he should stay home and work. “You know you’ve got to work twice as hard as people used to.”