Billy Preston arrived as a freshman on the campus of the University of Kansas in the fall

of 2017.

Billy had grown up in Los Angeles, but the sleepy college town of Lawrence actually felt

like a perfect match.

The vibe that I got, it was more like Lawrence was like a mellow scene and that's kind of

eye and I'm just like a fat line.

I'm never too high and never too low.

Billy was no ordinary college freshman.

He was a J-Hawk, a player on one of the top college basketball teams in the country.

And on that campus, surrounded by Kansas corn and soybean fields, he was a celebrity.

I was a little lob inside Preston, but that was really good stuff.

And it time out from Mark Johnson.

You know I was a guy out here, people snapping me telling me this, you know you're a great

basketball player and you're going to be in the NBA one day.

I can do something where a lot of people love me for doing what I do.

In Saturday and November, Billy and his teammate Marcus Garrett decided to drive to the mall

to buy some sneakers.

Nike was dropping a new edition of Air Jordan 11's that day, white and navy blue.

And they was some real heat and we drive all the way to some mall that's like an hour

away, hour in 10 minutes away.

The big mall with the exclusive shoes was near Kansas City, about 40 miles away from

the campus in Lawrence.

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