►RELATED: Poor free-throw shooting dooms Ball State basketball in loss against Northern Kentuckyīut the summer before his junior year of high school, Ishmael’s mindset shifted. ►RELATED: How Ball State football addressed its loss against CMU, and why It took Ishmael a while to embrace being an El-Amin playing high school basketball in Minnesota, especially as so many interviews during his time as an underclassmen felt structured around “my dad this, my dad that.” It took Ishmael a while to realize within himself and vocalize that he and his father are different players, that while Khalid possessed a legacy and style of play, so did he. And all that, all the hype those accomplishments associated with Ishmael’s last name, at one point took Ishmael to "a low place for a little bit." Khalid El-Amin won three state titles as a high school basketball star in Minnesota, earned numerous accolades before moving on to college, won a national title with the University of Connecticut in 1999 and played close to two decades professionally - mostly overseas, although he started in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls. He knows people always thought of him as his dad’s kid. There were times growing up when the weight of expectations represented more of a burden to Ishmael El-Amin than anything else. View Gallery: Ball State basketball plays Indiana State
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