“We were trying to make arguably the biggest decision of our lives,” he says. “I was trying to tell everyone involved” — Brooklyn, Phoenix, BYU — “‘I’ve just got to get home. I just gotta get home to my wife, I gotta look at her in the eyes and we’ve got to talk this thing through.’”

During the flight from Sacramento to Minneapolis, Kevin received “this super long text” from Melissa.

“It was really heartfelt and she said a lot of things that I’ve really never heard her say in terms of her own faith and her own testimony and what BYU would mean for our kids, too. I get emotional, honestly, thinking about it. That text was a pretty spiritual experience for me.”
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“We can give the NBA up,” Melissa Young told her husband when he was considering BYU’s offer. “We can. We can give up the fun, the cool — it is cool, it’s fun, it’s exciting — but we can give it up for our family. We are meant to be at BYU, for whatever reason, and we need to step into that role. We need to have faith that we can rise up to that occasion and whatever we need to do, and we need to do it.”

Thank you, Melissa Young, for your role in getting Kevin Young to BYU.