Shabazz Muhammad (Las Vegas/Bishop Gorman) is not lacking in the genetics department. His mother played basketball and ran track at Long Beach State. His father was a basketball player at USC. Faye Muhammad and Ron Holmes aren't quite the Mannings when it comes to cranking out athletes, but they'll give them a run for their money.
The eldest of their three children, Asia, is a 20-year old professional tennis player. The youngest, Rashad, is a junior Division I basketball prospect. Then there's Shabazz, the standard-bearer for all wings in the 2012 class and ESPN's newly minted No. 1 prospect.
They're merely continuing the family bloodline. Stephone Paige, a former Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver who once owned the NFL record for most receiving yards in a single game, is Shabazz Muhammad's uncle. His cousins, the offspring of Paige, were college athletes in volleyball, track and field and football. Not even the Mannings have that kind of diversity in their portfolio.
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