Injured while escaping a life-altering house fire when he was 17, Hyland blends a wise-beyond-his-years demeanor with contagious energy. He will participate in Friday night’s NBA Rising Stars Chall…
LOS ANGELES — The window of his bedroom loomed 20 feet above the ground. Bones Hyland didn’t like heights, but he didn’t have a choice. Jump or be consumed by the fire raging behind his door.
Although he still doesn’t like to talk about it, Hyland bears tattoos of his family members on his arms, a gentle reminder of how nothing is guaranteed. Not basketball or life. Hyland’s wise-beyond-his-years demeanor is masked only by his youthful approach to the game of basketball. He can’t contain his enthusiasm every time he steps on the court, flying from one end of it to the other, arms and legs whirling, in an attempt to make the right play.
The Rising Stars Challenge is a showcase for some of the league’s top young talent, plus a few of the G League’s best players. Hyland, a second-year player, averaged 10.9 points and 2.8 assists in his two seasons with the Nuggets, and posted six points, four rebounds and two assists in his Clippers debut against Golden State on Tuesday.
Clippers forward Marus Morris Sr. first met Hyland at an AAU game not far from his Philadelphia home when the young guard was 12 years old. He had asked a coach who the best player on his team was and that coach motioned for this little skinny kid to come forward. “He always had kind of that ‘it’ factor growing up and then he had the ‘Bones Hyland’ thing,” Morris Sr. said. “So, it kind of fit, you know what I’m saying?”
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