Gene Brown lobbed the type of jab that only a teammate would take the right way. © Adam Jardy (L-R) Buckeyes Malaki Branham, Gene Brown and E.J. Liddell participate in the Kingdom Summer League at Northside Christian School on August 1, 2021. Playing in the Kingdom Summer League Sunday, the second-year Ohio State guard was matched up against first-year counterpart Malaki Branham. With Brown’s team liberally deploying double teams and pressure, Branham saw Brown trying to jump him for a steal and passed the ball out of danger. It earned Branham a four-letter word from Brown. “He called me soft,” Branham said with a smile. One possession later, Branham took a pass near the same spot in the backcourt, spun toward the middle and flew down the lane to slam home a thunderous, one-handed dunk with his right hand. It was the exclamation point on Branham’s triple-double. He recorded 36 points, 15…
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