Aquille Carr may not be a name most people know in the basketball world, but this isn’t the case in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, the name Aquille Carr represents not only basketball excellence but there’s a deeper meaning, which involves the city’s terrible crime rate.
Carr was born in Baltimore on September 28, 1993. By the time he reached high school, which was Patterson High School in Baltimore, Carr only stood 5’6″, but that didn’t stop him from becoming a legend on the court.
Carr has a unique style of play, which he started learning at a very young age.
“I started playing basketball when I was four years old,” Carr explained in a 2011 interview with GQ. ”When I was seven or eight, that’s when I realized I had to take it seriously.”
Carr’s high school mixtape hit YouTube back in 2011, and it set the internet on fire. The way Carr handled the ball and the moves he’d make on the court was on par with the famous And1 Mixtape that came out in 1998.
It seemed like everyone wanted to watch this young man play. But this was nothing compared to how Carr’s play affected his home city of Baltimore.
The Crime Stopper
Baltimore has been a city plagued with high crime rates for a long time. Guns and drugs overwhelm the streets as gangs patrol them. It seemed like nothing could lower the crime rates, then Carr started to play high school basketball.
Yes, when Aquille Carr would play in a game of basketball, the crime rate in Baltimore literally dropped. The reason for this was that nearly the entire city would show up to watch him play.
Because of this, Carr earned the nickname “The Crime Stopper,” and Carr lowering the crime was no truer than during his junior year when he led his school to the Maryland 3A state championship. Carr scored 28 points while adding 8 assists in the championship game.
Even with incredible ball-handling skills and a 48-inch vertical, Carr went undrafted to the NBA in the 2014 Draft. This was after skipping college and playing in the NBA Development League for the Delaware 87ers in 2013.
Since then, Carr has played in several other professional leagues, such as the National Basketball League and the American Basketball Association. Today, Carr is playing for the Reading Rebels in The Basketball League.
As of this writing, Carr is averaging 16.9 points, 2.9 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 1.4 steals per game. It’s great to see Carr is still playing basketball, and maybe one day we’ll see him take his “crime-stopping” talents to the NBA.
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