Column: Oxendine held Kobe Bryant in high regard

  • Jerrell Oxendine holds his retired No. 3 Crescent City High School boys basketball uniform while posing for pictures with, from left, his brother Jaylon, sister Tiana, mom Titiania, and father Bryant on Monday. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
    Jerrell Oxendine holds his retired No. 3 Crescent City High School boys basketball uniform while posing for pictures with, from left, his brother Jaylon, sister Tiana, mom Titiania, and father Bryant on Monday. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
The date for the retirement of Jerrell Oxendine’s uniform number was originally a couple of weeks earlier, but his former Crescent City High School boys basketball coach, Al Carter, wanted to make…

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