He also played football because he liked the physicality and his best friend was the quarterback, but he knew he didn’t want to play in college.īasketball just kind of happened. “Until I couldn’t get the curve anymore, the ball started moving too fast,” O’Quinn, a die-hard Mets fan, remembers.
Up until then, baseball was his first love. O’Quinn started playing basketball recreationally in his neighborhood at a young age, like most kids do, but didn’t play organized basketball until he was in 11th grade. He describes his childhood as “regular family life … just the four of us pulling for each other.”
transit, alongside his older sister, Rasheena. O’Quinn was raised by his mother, Regina, a post office worker, and his father, Tommie, who worked in N.Y. Kyle O’Quinn sometimes sports a sweatshirt that reads “O’Quinn & Son Hardware.” It’s the name of the hardware store his family had growing up in Queens, New York.
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