Brennan Frost had a front row seat when his younger brother Ryder’s legend started becoming real.
Ryder was in the sixth grade, playing for his father Brady’s Beverly, Mass., travel team in a game at the Mill Works in Westford, Mass. Brennan sat at the scorer’s table at center court, keeping the game book, and it was getting away from them. They trailed by 12 with less than 2 minutes left. And they never expected what happened next.
Ryder’s family had always known how good of a shooter he was, but this even shocked them: In an unbelievable sequence of events, Ryder made five 3-pointers in those final moments to lift Beverly to an unthinkable victory.
Brady and those around him could only laugh. There was no grand plan. They knew their best shot of a comeback was to keep getting Ryder the ball and letting him shoot. He just happened to catch fire, and Beverly came up with enough stops to escape with the win.
