Come on Dosunmu, base of first year of the Chicago Bulls, is being uncovered as one of the great surprises of a team that this season has settled in the Eastern Conference elite. The Illinois player has assumed the reins of the set of Billy Donovan behind the lesin de Lonzo Ball and it hasn’t taken him long to win the affection of the fans, who have found in the rookie player the local idol they seemed to need so much.
Ayo Dosunmu, the sensation of the Bulls who is already top in the NBA
dosunmu (7.1 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists) also meets all the requirements to win the hearts of Bulls fans: improvement, work, talent and a dose of tragedy. Ingredients that feed hundreds of stories in the world of sports and that in the case of the Bulls rookie has led him to fulfill his dream and that of Darius Brown, the young man who marked his childhood and that accompanies him in each basket he scores or in each ball he steals. It is your guardian angel.
Soulmates
Ayo and Brown met through and for basketball. They both shared a passion and soon began spending hours and hours together making each other better no matter what. Darius was two years older than Ayo, who felt devotion to his new “older brother”. To the point that the Dosunmu adopted Brown on weekends so that he could play games with the team coached by the patriarch, Quam.
Basketball, basketball and basketball. That was the life of today’s Bulls player with his friend Darius, who discounted the hours from Sunday night to Friday afternoon to return to the Dosunmu’s house in Northbrook.
A lost bullet
That was the path he had to take. August 3, 2011But this time Quam asked him to give him a little more time. She needed to rest a bit before going to look for him. Darius chatted with Ayo and told her that he was going to Metcalfe Park to play basketball while he waited for Quam.
It was his last basket. A stray bullet in the shootout between two rival gangs It ended up hitting a Brown who was taken to the hospital, but for which the doctors could not do anything. At the age of 13, Darius Brown goes on to fatten the lists of victims of street violence.
I am still unable to explain what that moment was like, it broke my heart
Ayo, who was barely 10 years old at the time, received the news between tears and denial of a reality that was too cruel for a child his age. “I’m still unable to explain what that moment was like, it broke my heart,” recalls the new Bulls idol years later.
He’s a jet, which is what Darius was on the court. It is his symbol and in this way I maintain his legacy
However, Ayo showed her self-improvement ability and strength and decided that Brown had not left and that he would always be with him on the court. The young Bulls player has kept his word and now every time he scores a basket he presses his index, middle and ring fingers and extends his thumb and little finger in the shape of an airplane. “It’s a jet, which is what Darius was on the court. It’s his symbol and in this way I maintain his legacy,” says Dosunmu, who already knows what it’s like to celebrate a top basket in honor of his friend.
