Today, we move on to one of the toughest and underrated Cavaliers this season, the versatile Devin Brown ...

I started playing basketball … at a little school – a very little school – down in San Antonio. Then it was off to Rainbow Hills, then West Campus and then University of Texas-San Antonio.

My best coach growing up was … One of my high school coaches, Ray Carroll. He played college ball at Southwest Texas, which is now Texas State. He had a good feeling for players who lived in the neighborhood.

I was going to private school and I used to go up there and play with all the public kids and he said, ‘You live in this District? Because you need to come over here.’

So it took some decision on my mom’s part – she really didn’t want me to go to public school. I ended up going and it worked out for both sides, so he took me in.

In my sophomore year in high school … we had a bunch of scorers on the team, so I just focused on rebounding and that kind of stuff. Then in my junior and senior year, the Coach just let me go. That’s when all the records happened.

I first started feeling I could play pro ball … when UTSA went to the NCAA Tournament in my freshman year in college. We played UConn and some of the guys they had on that team were Rip Hamilton, Khalid El-Amin and Jake Voshkul. And I thought, ‘I can play with these guys.’

And from then on, I started believing. I started working a little bit harder every day.

My younger sister played … volleyball and ran track. She played basketball, a little bit. It was hard for her playing for her high school coach because of what I was doing for my team. He wanted her to do the same thing for her team.

Back then, it was easier for her to give advice to me … than it was for me to give tips to her, because she wasn’t going to listen to me. There’s just no way.

The first time I dunked … I was a freshman. The first time I tried – remember that Sprite commercial where the guy got rim-checked and fell on his back? Well that happened to me the first time I tried to dunk.

I tried to dunk it in front of the whole school. I was at Rainbow Hills and the gym was full. There were rumors that I was the only one who could dunk on our team, so I went and tried it and I missed the first one – got rim-checked bad.

But I came back and tried another one later in that game. And that was my first dunk.