Article content continued“I realized team sports were my calling,” he says on a recent weekday evening, having just wrapped up his homework. I like the fact that when you’re in a team setting, you can bring the best out of other people while other people bring the best out of you. But according to Abdul Raheem, Azim’s older brother by nine years, Azim rarely needed extra motivation, in athletics or in the classroom. “Our role has just been to support anything that he’s really needed, like a drop somewhere, or a trip somewhere, or shoes or anything like that,” Abdul says. “I never let him live that down because that’s really my last claim to fame,” Abdul says.

Source: National Post January 01, 2021 16:07 UTC