NEVER IN DOUBT
Jul 19, 2019
4 minutes
WORDS FRANKLYN CALLE
PORTRAITS ATIBA JEFFERSON
HE SCROLLED through his phone and made it a priority to get screenshots of as many of them as possible—tweet after tweet. He wanted a record of all the doubts that existed regarding him and his game. His phone soon was inundated with photos of social media posts—some by complete strangers, others by people he knew really well—that predicted how long it would take for him to have a shot at becoming an NBA player.
They all said it’d be at least a few years before the League would come calling for him. And the mock drafts agreed.
Yet, here is Coby White, inside a gym in Thousand Oaks,
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