Staff report
CLEVELAND —It’s mid-August, so Keshun Sherrill keeps his phone close, waiting for the call from his agent to tell him what’s next.
He’s not ready to retire.
Sherrill, who graduated from West Rowan in 2012 after a phenomenal career and was one of the all-time greats in the Peach Belt Conference at Augusta, is still playing pro basketball. He turned 31 on Tuesday.
Sherrill weighs 73 kilograms (160 pounds) and is 175 centimeters tall (5-foot-9), so he has defied very long odds to play this long, but people learned to stop doubting him a long time ago.
Basketball has allowed Sherrill to see the world. Or at least a lot of it. He’s played professionally in Italy, Mexico, Holland, Turkey and France.
The pro seasons are a grind. He played his first game of the 2024-25 season for a French team on Sept. 13. He played his last one in the Turkish Basketball League playoffs on May 1.
He averaged 10.8 points in France, but he averaged 17.5 after making a move to Turkey, including a 34-point debut for his new team that included six 3-pointers.
It was an efficient 17.5 points that he averaged, with 54.5 percent on 2s, 42 percent on 3s and 82 percent from the foul line. He added nearly 5 assists per game, so there’s still some basketball left in his legs.
