Prep Basketball Team Sports Pink Sneakers for Player's Mom

Remember Coy Sheppard, the senior kicker from Mendenhall (Miss.) High School who claimed in 2010 that he was booted from the football team for wearing pink cleats in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month?

Contrast that with the response received by Grant Kajiwara Bantilan - a 17-year-old point guard on East San Jose, Calif.'s Independence High School basketball team - when he started wearing bright pink sneakers on the court to honor his mother, who is battling breast cancer. "Dude, that's awesome," head coach Greg Duarte told Bantilan, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Duarte then went out and bought a pair of his own.

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