Last weekend, Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum and his older brother, Errick, were guests on ESPN's SportsCenter to discuss, amongst other things, The Basketball Tournament, which is billed as a "open application, 5-on-5, single-elimination, winner-take-all basketball tournament" in which the winning team takes home $2 million in prize money. Errick's team, Overseas Elite, won the tournament last year and are in the finals, which airs Tuesday at 4 PM Pacific on ESPN, again this year.
But the tournament wasn't the only topic of conversation, as any time you get two brothers together, you're contractually obligated to ask them which is mom's favorite. One one had, CJ still lives with his mom, so you might assume he's the got the No. 1 son ranking sewn up, but it sounds like Errick was the much better behaved child and mom's tend to have long memories, so it sounds like it's a bit of a tossup.
"CJ, he was a good kid," said Errick, "he just liked to get into things. He was really physical. She couldn't take him around any other kids or he would, like, get into little altercations with them because he just played too rough."
Sounds about right.