“His daughter went to Alabama a year-and-a-half ago...He went through a similar situation in Atlanta. He played in the NFL. He told me what he thought guys needed to hear,' Oats said in an interview before Tuesday night's game.
Speaking publicly for the second time since Sunday’s arrest of Darius Miles for capital murder, Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats revealed Tuesday he spoke to former NFL linebacker Ray Lewis in the wake of the incident.
Miles, a now-dismissed Alabama basketball player, and another man, Michael Davis, were arrested Sunday and were both charged with capital murder for the early-morning shooting death of 23-year old Jamea Harris on Tuscaloosa’s Strip. Court recordsstated witnesses told police that Davis fired the shot that killed Harris and Miles admitted to police that he provided the gun.
“Lot of prayer. Read them some bible verses on how to handle types of things like this. And really, we’ve kind of reiterated, like, your choices. We can learn from this, too. Don’t lose a learning lesson. Let’s learn what we can from this. Hopefully the rest of the team makes better decisions moving forward and they can really learn from this.”
“After they talked for a little while, they came to me and said they weren’t in the right frame of mind to practice [Sunday], which I totally got. I had kind of left it up to them as to what we were going to do that night. So we gave them the night off. They said they would be ready to go [Monday]. A lot of them hadn’t slept.
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