Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
As a kid, it was a daily walk he couldn’t wait to make.
“Our elementary school was right next to our high school, so after school I’d walk over to the gym,” said Wright State’s 6-foot-9 redshirt sophomore Grant Basile. “The varsity team would be in there and I loved going to their practice.”
His dad, Michael Basile, was the head basketball coach at Pewaukee High School and that gave Grant access to the gym floor, the rack of balls on the sideline and, most importantly, his heroes.
“When I watched the older guys, I looked at them as celebrities,” he said. “It was pretty cool being around them.”
And in order to stay around them, he said he quickly learned a cardinal rule: “You don’t keep dribbling the basketball when the coach is talking to them.”
Recalling those times, his dad laughed: “He was well-versed knowing the ins and outs of the high school gym.”
And game nights were best.
