Calkins: The basketball manager at Houston High delivered a moment no one will soon forget
Angela Griffith (mom), Houston High boys basketball coach Rob Sabau, Henry Griffith and Brad Griffith (dad) pose for a photo on Senior Night for Houston’s varsity basketball team. (Courtesy Angela Griffith)
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The chants began as early as the third quarter.
“We want Henry!”
“We want Henry!”
‘We want Henry!!
But Henry Griffith was not going in.
Griffith is the manager of the Houston High School basketball team. He’s a senior — and has been the manager all four of his high school years.
Griffith makes sure the bleachers are pulled out before home games. He fills water bottles. Gets the coach’s clipboard ready. All the mundane things that basketball managers do.
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