Methinks a good summary was that he was great at b-ball and sucked raw eggs at everything else. Ya know, that white guy stuff.
At school, we called that the “dumb jock syndrome”.
(Please note, a university best friend was a linebacker and had a better STEM GPA than I did, so it’s not a universal truth by any means.)
:-)
I know an Olympian of a different sport who got a full ride to a good college on a football scholarship. A guy on the football team was a great high school student. The coaches arranged this, then swapped players! My guy didn’t do that well academically in HS and the football scholarships were less reliant on gpa.