Former NBA player urges students to make positive choices

YOUNGSTOWN — The choices you make follow you for a long time. That’s why former NBA player Michael Morrison urged students at Stambaugh Charter Academy today to make positive ones.

Morrison, who played for the Phoenix Suns and teams in the Continental and Philippine basketball associations, grew up outside Washington, D.C.

At 11, he learned about guilt by association. After a friend broke into a city park building to use kickball equipment after hours, his friends conspired to blame Morrison.

He was sentenced to two years probation and had to stay out of trouble until he was 18 to get the charge expunged. But after that, he was the one others always suspected whenever anything came up missing.

“The mistakes you make will follow you until you prove them wrong,” Morrison said.

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