“Every time something’s going on, I’m just like, ‘What …
Ajay’s most poignant memories of Barry, which surfaced in the days after he died and replay anytime he thinks of him, are simple. Driving with him to and from school. Learning the words to Kanye West and Jay-Z’s “Gotta Have It.
” How he’d phone him to joke that he’d lost his hearing after watching Ajay’s older brother, Elliott Black, shoot bricks in the gym. “There’s this voice in my head of him, you know? ” Ajay said.
“It feels like he never really left me. ” So, he listens. “Every time something’s going on, I’m just like, ‘What would he say?
What would he think? ’” Mitchell said. “His biggest thing was always family, and I think the way we all handled it is the way he would want it to be.
He would have wanted us to stay up, no matter what, and remember him for the good things and what he is. New York Times This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: “Every time something’s going on, I’m just like, ‘What …