When You’re Young

The Jam: Extras is a collection of Krucial Kuts that fall outside of our usual lines of classification.  You’re listening to side one/track three: When You’re Young, in which we speak with Jeff Mann-Stock, who went to grade school with Stephen Curry and to high school with Jeremy Lin.

K.  Are you from North Carolina, originally?

J.  I was born in the Chicago area, and I lived there until I was four.  Then I lived in Jacksonville, FL for about a year and a half after that, then I moved to Charlotte, NC.  I lived there from Kindergarten until the end of second grade or the beginning of third grade.  That’s when I went to school with Steph.

I moved to Palo Alto when I was about 12 or 13.  I wound up going to Palo Alto High School and just happened to be in the same graduating class as Jeremy Lin.

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