NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn’t even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year.
“He let us stay there,” Armstead said. “So just encounters like that, with like everyday good people, it just helped me to not, like, be mad at the world and what I got going on and just wait, which I did. I waited four or five years, and now it’s something finally changing.
They stayed in a hotel for a couple weeks, then wound up in a shelter in Santa Monica. His mother drove him to school, a 40-minute trip one way so she waited in a parking lot for classes to wrap up to save gas and money. Yet a school official learned Armstead was sending what he could home to help his family. Even that wasn’t enough as his family kept moving from shelters to a hotel and back to the car. Finally last November, his mother, sister and brother finally moved into their own apartment.