“There was never a second of ‘woe is me,’ there was never a second of dropoff,” Banks said.
In February 2015, when he was a junior in high school at the Mount Vernon School in Sandy Springs, Sonja was paralyzed in a car accident.īut after the latter accident, he took his cues from his mother, whom he called “probably the strongest woman I’ve ever met, honestly.” When he was 4, his father was killed in a motorcycle accident, leaving his mother Sonja to raise James and his older sister Marissa. His life, in fact, has been marked particularly by two family traumas. “They’re not going to remember every bucket.” Raised by ‘the strongest woman I’ve ever met’īanks, who grew up in Stone Mountain, has reached this point via a path that has not been the easy stroll that his carefree and outgoing personality might suggest. “Basketball is fine and dandy, but there’s going to be a lot more people that are going to remember me for the type of person I am and what I did and how I carry myself,” he told the AJC. 5 Louisville on Wednesday.īut there’s more, and Banks recognizes as much. Most recently, stretching out his 6-foot-10 frame on the floor to win a loose ball and start a fast break for the Jackets in their upset of No. A 14-point, 15-rebound, seven-block performance against Duke last month. A game-winning dunk in the final seconds to beat N.C. A vicious throwdown over Duke’s Zion Williamson in January 2019 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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