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    Nine years after David Robinson retired with two NBA les, his youngest son wants to make a name for himself in another sport.

    SAN ANTONIO - David Robinson thinks this is fun.

    The former San Antonio Spurs star and NBA Hall of Famer sat on a folding table with his overly long legs dangling off, and in-between taking pictures and shaking hands Robinson followed his son, Corey Robinson, around the Alamodome at Friday's U.S. Army National Combine.



    Robinson's son is a 6-foot-4, 195-pound wide receiver from San Antonio Christian, and even though he's admittedly raw, the potential is evident.

    Keeping things in perspective when one's father is wearing a glimmering diamond ring from one of his NBA championships could be difficult. Robinson is so affable, though, that it comes easy to him and his family.

    Between the two Robinsons, there is seemingly no ego.

    "Expectations always put things out of perspective," David Robinson said. "I told him you can only do what you can do. Academics are really No. 1 and that's where I try to keep his focus. He's fifth or sixth in his class and I've always told him even if you get a football scholarship he has to prepare himself for the long term."

    Sports were not a lifelong focus of Corey Robinson, whom his father called a "Renaissance kid", and so football has only become serious in the last few years. He started playing as a freshman because his older brother did and over time Robinson started falling in love with it.

    San Antonio Christian runs the ball often so Robinson did not put up big statistics this past season, but he had impressive moments at the combine and proved he could get Division I offers.

    "The first thing I can say about Corey as a player is he's raw," said San Antonio Christian offensive coordinator and receivers coach Brandon Parrott, who played at Kansas. "The kid has been playing for two years and he just figured out this season that he could be pretty good.

    "He gets bigger by the day, he has an unbelievable set of hands so if you just put the ball close to him he goes and gets it. Day by day he's learning how great of a player he can be."

    Continue reading: http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com...sp?CID=1315743

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    that's whats up. he has the physical tools to beast out there, the sky is the limit for him.

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    Magua hate the grey name Magua's Avatar
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    So future Spurs players will also know what it's liked to be chased with a bible...can't wait, tbh.

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    So future Spurs players will also know what it's liked to be chased with a bible...can't wait, tbh.
    more important - hopefully the SA community will get to experience the same type of generosity from Corey whether he's an athlete or a successful businessman as they did from his father.

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    cool story

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    how old is he?

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    God, I feel old. Robinson's kids are getting college scholarship offers?

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    Nice story, love the Admiral.

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    Spur-taaaa TDMVPDPOY's Avatar
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    God, I feel old. Robinson's kids are getting college scholarship offers?
    how about doc rivers and tim hardaways sons are both declaring for the next draft....

    whatever happen to the kid buford adopted a few years ago.....?

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    Goin' for tha scholarship Budkin's Avatar
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    NINE years since he retired?? Holy life is flying by.

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    NINE years since he retired?? Holy life is flying by.
    I heard a saying once "the older you get, the faster the time flies" or some to the order.

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    Don't stop believin' Dex's Avatar
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    I heard a saying once "the older you get, the faster the time flies" or some to the order.
    I think we can all agree to this sentiment, but mathematically speaking, it makes sense.

    When you are four, a year would be a quarter of your lifespan, so of course that seems like a big chunk and a very long time. Compare that to when you are 30, and a year is just 1/30th of your lifetime...things start to zip by pretty damn quick.

    I remember when I was a kid and having to wait a month for something seemed like an eternity.

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    Believe. mikekim's Avatar
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    NINE years since he retired?? Holy life is flying by.
    Seriously.

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