“To give myself a challenge. 22, “and I wanted to be like him ever since I was little.”“I love basketball, and it’s a challenge,” he says. I think that’s what's important, that you have strong people in your life that are there to keep everything in perspective.”Which is what Damon does for his kids.

“Everyone wants a picture, an autograph. But the scoring record was never a source of motivation.“It’s a great honor and something you can be proud of, but to be honest I never gave it a second thought when I was playing or even today,” he said. Player News. Brayton Bailey's highlights New Palestine High School 1:00.

A woman spots him, points him out to her husband, and comes over to ask if she can take their picture together. Western Kentucky. With an extra game, he would have to average 39.3 points.
“You can’t do some of the things other 17- and 18-year-olds can.”If there is anybody who can understand what it was like to be Damon Bailey, it is Romeo Langford.

But if that record was all I cared about, we wouldn’t even be talking about it. To follow this profile, please let us know your relationship to Brayton Bailey doesn’t play that game.“I’ve spent a lot of time telling him to take a shot,” his coach at Bedford North Lawrence, Matt Seifers, is saying by phone from Bedford. “It’s the way they grew up. 22.Four courts at Ben Davis High, a game on each one.

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This is Indiana, after all, and people always want to talk to Damon Bailey.That is OK. Bailey, 46, has been politely answering questions for 30-something years.“The only difference now is that I don’t have coach (Dan) Bush to shield me from it,” Bailey joked Tuesday.There have been basketball players from Indiana that have gone on to bigger and brighter college and NBA careers. The game went to overtime, where Floyd Central won, but in the final seconds of regulation it was Brayton Bailey who drove into the lane and pivoted for room and didn’t find any but scored anyway to force overtime. “He’s unselfish, he gives the ball up when he’s double-teamed and doesn’t get caught up in the hoopla.
The BNL bench celebrates as Brayton Bailey (in front of referee) receives congratulations from his father, Damon, after scoring to move into second place on BNL’s all-time scoring list on Feb. 11. “With his senior night and us being in the same building, it will be a zoo. He took the HS team to 3 Final 4's and a state championship (single class) when the tallest starting player was 6'3" probably. (Garet Cobb / Times-Mail). I know he’s had some terrific games lately from a point total. Brayton Bailey is rated and evaluated by Indiana Basketball Source. And if it was something that he really cared about, he would have broken it already.”Bailey wants Langford to go to Indiana. Adults waited in line to get his autograph. “And I told him I hope he wins every game but two — when we play him in the regular season and sectional.”Bailey still looks like he could lace ‘em up and drop 30 points.After serving as an assistant for the women’s program at Butler for three seasons, he resigned in the spring of 2017 to focus his attention on the Bedford-based Hawkins-Bailey Warehouse distribution company he has co-owned for many years.That move has afforded him the opportunity to coach his son, Brayton, who is averaging more than 16 points a game for the 12-7 Stars.

It’s probably hard for people to understand, but I think it’s just something for fans and media to discuss and have fun with. He kept the game close to Marion in the Final 4 as a freshman when they had …

Class: 2020. Here's a guy who scored nearly 5,000 points in high school and college, made the 1998 All-CBA first team but never stuck in the NBA: “And in my case,” he says of the absurdity of expectations, “that’s a failure.”“In Brayton’s case,” Damon Bailey is saying of his only son, “if he doesn’t go to IU, if he doesn’t play professional basketball, he’s not a failure.