You know who needs to write a book? No, not that Kardashian girl. Feel free to duck from my flying shoe to for even suggesting something so silly.

The real answer is Kevin Durant’s mom. Statistics always blame single women for breeding criminals and deadbeats. As a scientist some of this is true. What the number really don’t show you is that some single mothers don’t tend not to prioritize discipline since they work two jobs and aren’t home. It’s kind of hard to ground someone when you can’t enforce it.

Now look at Wanda Pratt. Look at the heck of a job she did. Look at how her mother helped bring up this young fella. It’s not just about poverty, because you can pull yourself up and out. THIS IS AMERICA. Believe me when I say you can actually start from the bottom and go somewhere. Try that in India where the odds are stacked further against you. Try that in Saudi Arabia where there is no chance- and if you’re a woman- may the odds be ever in your favor.

Durant’s mother knew they were poor but she never let her son know that’s all he would be. He might be 6’10 but even if he was 5’9″, as well spoken and educated as he is, there was no way he was staying where he was born. She set her kids up for a better life.

I could tell you how hard my life was growing up, except it wasn’t. My dad didn’t run the air conditioner. It was expensive. We lived in an old house with a box a/c unit in Florida. This was my struggle as a child. It was a first class problem. Then we moved after a hurricane to a house with central a/c- and we ran that bad boy, if only at night. But my struggle didn’t end there. I didn’t have my own room until college when I moved into the dorms. More middle class suffering. We always lived in a house with a yard and always had plenty of food. Tell that to Kevin Durant.

Parents, really are an indicator of what children are going to be. Not money and not consoles.

I spoil Duffy. I hope he thinks I’m a fraction of a mother Miss Pratt is. I consider that winning.

[Napping while enjoying crisp, cold, air-conditioned breeze.]

So, there you have it. I can’t say anything unkind about someone who conducts himself like that. Now, Lance Stephenson, is totally fair game.