5-Minute Time Out: Eddie House
The Celtics player on his biggest fan: his eight-year-old son.
by Jeanne Sager
June 18, 2009
Jaelen goes to public school. How do his classmates react knowing who his dad is?
I don't know — he really doesn't talk to us about that. You get the looks and the waves 'hi' when you go pick him up, but besides that I think it's really normal for him.
What about you — how do you carve out the family time with three kids and eighty-two games a year plus practices?
You have to juggle responsibilities, take care of your responsibility at work and then come home and take care of your home responsibilities. You just figure a way out.
How does being so family-centered affect you as a player?
It gives you motivation. When you look and see your kids in the stands or when you leave and they say, "Have a good game!," it's extra motivation to go out and perform to show the best of your capabilities.
"He just asked to be a ball boy, so I brought him."
You like having your kids at your games?
Yeah — just looking up at them and seeing them watching me, seeing them taking in everything that's going on.
Did you and your wife start the conversation about Jaelen attending your games?
He just asked to be a ball boy, so I brought him. That was it. He comes down on the court, helps rebound, shag balls, stuff like that.
And does he get out and actually play with you guys?
He gets out and plays sometimes. He's playing basketball right now on a team. It teaches them teamwork, teaches them how to get along with other people, how to come together to accomplish one goal. As a team, you get a win and everyone does their part. That's big for kids on that level. He's pretty good for being eight.
For being eight? Weren't you pretty good at eight?
I didn't play basketball at eight years old. [Laughs] I didn't start playing until like ten, eleven.
So is he going to be a basketball player when he grows up?
It doesn't matter. Whatever he wants to do, as long as he likes what he's doing, I'll support him.
Whatever it is.
©2009 Babble
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Jeanne Sager is a freelance writer and photographer living in upstate New York with her husband and daughter, Jillian. She maintains a blog of her award-winning columns at jeannesager.blogspot.com. |
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