LeVelle Moton’s story – from growing up poor in Raleigh, NC to becoming one of the best and most respected college basketball coaches in the country – has been well chronicled. So respected that when UNC’s head men’s basketball coach Roy Williams needed a game for his team, he called Moton and after a “five-minute conversation” on a Wednesday, the two programs played on that Saturday. NCCU and Carolina hadn’t played against each other since 2015.

Moton is also well-respected in the community in Raleigh. So much so that when he and some business partners founded a construction company, he was contacted by one of the premiere developers in the Raleigh-Durham area and in North Carolina to be part of a project called Downtown South in Raleigh.

When Moton appeared on FROM THE PRESS BOX TO PRESS ROW w/ Donal Ware last week, he not only talked basketball, but gave his thoughts on the Downtown South project.

Black people [are] always going to have problems until we have the opportunity to own stuff… through ownership, you have the ability to change things. Through owenership you don’t have to depend on others to do anything for you…