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To celebrate Black History Month, District 218 will graduates from Eisenhower, Richards, and Shepard high schools who have achieved noteworthy success academically, professionally, artistically, in public service, or in some other field of endeavor.
This story, one of several this month, features graduates from Shepard High School.
Sam Jones, Class of 1996
Today Sam works as the Coordinator for Player Development for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Through many years of experience and hard work playing and coaching Sam landed this position.
Subscribe One of the things I like about my job is the development piece. I help young professional NBA players develop on and off the court. Helping them with their skill work on the court and how to create an effective regime and mindset off the court. It brings me great joy to develop meaningful relationships with these world class athletes and people, he said.
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