Allan Houston — American Athlete born on April 20, 1971,

Allan Wade Houston is an American retired professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1993-2005. He is currently the Assistant General Manager for the New York Knicks and the General Manager for Knicks' NBA Development team, the Westchester Knicks... (wikipedia)

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.
There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery.