Thursday, April 18, 2013

Adversity? It's just fuel for NCCU coach LeVelle Moton's inner fire

LeVelle Moton
Head Men's Basketball Cioach
North Carolina Central University
(Photo Courtesy: NCCU Athletics)
 DURHAM, North Carolina  — There is a bicycle in the shed at the home of LeVelle Moton’s mother. It’s from his father, and Moton told the Durham Sports Club on Wednesday that he’s never ridden it.

The bike was a birthday gift, and Moton, 9 or 10 at the time, said he wouldn’t have anything to do with it because it was from his father.

“I never accepted it,” Moton told the gathering at Croasdaile Country Club. “I always felt like if I ever rode that bike it would be me accepting him leaving, and I never did that.”

Years before the bike showed up adorned with a bow and a letter, Moton said his father had come home one day and asked everyone what they wanted from the store.

“He walked out the door, and we never saw him again,” Moton said. “I was abandoned by my father.”

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