A Brooklyn Family’s Long March Finally Reaches the N.B.A.

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A Brooklyn Family’s Long March Finally Reaches the N.B.A.
He was the guy you cannot arrest.”
Born Leslie R. Campbell, Weusi — a 6-foot-10 center — played on scholarship at Long Island University.
On the face of it, the story of Dakari Johnson — a 22-year-old backup center for the Oklahoma City Thunder — is familiar.
Kojo Campbell, another of Weusi’s sons, played on scholarship at Stony Brook
and “was a freakishly good street ball legend in his own right,” Fruster said.
With center Steven Adams out with a contusion to his right calf on Nov. 10, Johnson got his first N. B.A.
Weusi renamed him Pamoja, Swahili for “togetherness.” In the Cage — the cramped
basketball courts at West Fourth Street — they called him something else.
He played his high school ball at two powerhouses, St. Patrick High School in New Jersey, which produced Kyrie Irving,
and Florida’s Montverde Academy, before playing at Kentucky.
“I guarded whoever the best scorer was: Lance Stephenson, Kemba Walker, Ron Artest — I guarded all
those guys,” said Campbell, who was quite possibly the only Larry Bird fan in 1980s Bed-Stuy.

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A Brooklyn Family’s Long March Finally Reaches the N.B.A.