Cade and Hunter Tyson, a pair of 6-foot-7 brothers, have reached some impressive heights on a wide variety of basketball courts.

Cade is having a strong start to his senior season with the Gophers men’s basketball team; the transfer wing leads the Big Ten Conference in scoring through six games. His older brother Hunter surged in his last year at Clemson and became a second-round pick in the 2023 NBA Draft; the small forward now comes off the bench for the Denver Nuggets.

Yet a piece of both wishes they were just kids again, playing one-on-one in North Carolina.

Their first hoop was nothing more than an iron rim fastened to a 5-foot wooden post stuck out in their grass yard. No frills, not even a backboard. “Very Carolina of us,” Hunter recalled.

When in elementary school, the boys, al

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