After junior college success, East Hall grad Kyvon Davenport commits to play basketball at Memphis - Gainesville Times

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After junior college success, East Hall grad Kyvon Davenport commits to play basketball at Memphis

Gainesville native continues 'incredible transformation' that began at East Hall

Roderick Hughey, Elijah Lipscomb, Kyvon Davenport and Devin Watson are pulled from the game in the in the last few minutes of the East Hall vs. Laney basketball game in the quarterfinals of the Class AAA boys state tournament on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. - photo by Erin O. Smith

0416DAVENPORT 0001 — Roderick Hughey, Elijah Lipscomb, Kyvon Davenport and Devin Watson are pulled from the game in the in the last few minutes of the East Hall vs. Laney basketball game in the quarterfinals of the Class AAA boys state tournament on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. - photo by Erin O. Smith

When Kyvon Davenport first suited up for the East Hall basketball team in 2011, he couldn’t even make a layup. But Vikings coach Joe Dix was reluctant to cut the 6-foot-1 ninth grader, not with that kind of height at his age. Yet Davenport was unable to perform even the most perfunctory task on a basketball court, the same shortcoming that stopped him from making the eighth-grade squad the previous year.

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