Game provided stability for McKinney, who lost his father in a shooting at 5 and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as a teen
Wayne McKinney III owned secrets. They were his alone, life-and-death stuff bottled up and bear-hugged until he felt the time was right to share. Few knew how his father Wayne was gunned down while riding in the passenger seat of a car near the gritty Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was gang related, according to police. He was 24; young Wayne was 5.
In the summer after his sophomore year, he sprinted through three rounds of chemotherapy. They flew back and forth to Oregon to work with medical experts there. 'That was his ticket to college,' Ruttert said. 'Someone might be afraid he wasn't healthy or something. We decided to keep it quiet. He was starting at a new school. Almost nobody knew. 'Oh, he's the kid with cancer.' He didn't want any of that.' Unease and dread tested McKinney's resolve.
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