Hawks rookie guard both a brother and parent
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:26 am
Vivian Law knows that big brother is watching her every move.
He's monitoring every phone call, every smile, every shrug of the shoulders and anything else the 15-year-old Woodward Academy sophomore does.
Because Law's big brother, Hawks rookie point guard Acie Law IV, made a promise to his baby sister that she would live a different life, better in some respects, than they knew before.
"Long before the draft, my plan was always to bring my little sister with me wherever I went," Acie Law said. "She went to one of the top schools in the Dallas area, but I just wanted to show her a different lifestyle. Not to take anything away from my mom or my pops, because two people couldn't have done more for their kids than my parents have for us. But there are things that Viv's never had that I knew she could see and have here, so that she would know what to strive for in life.
"And with me being in a position to make that change in her life, to be able to make sure she had the best things educationally, I had to do what was in my heart."
The promise came with a few conditions, though.
The first was going to school at Woodward, one of Atlanta's more prestigious private schools. That, of course, required Vivian to move away from her parents, extended family and friends in her hometown of Dallas and to a new home, new life and a shocking new world in Atlanta.
"I was excited at first because I thought it was fast-paced with a lot of celebrities and that I'd meet all these exciting people," Vivian said. "But when I got here, I got homesick so fast. I was ready to go back [to Dallas] so quick. I was new, everybody at Woodward was new to me. I was just really unhappy. But I started making friends and getting comfortable with everything, and now I'm OK."
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