Diving for culture: Jamal Shead’s play that earned a message from Kelvin Sampson

“Culture.”

That was one of the key words that coach Kelvin Sampson texted to Jamal Shead after the Toronto Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers Game 4. It is a simple, direct, and loaded with meaning.

Along with it came a message Shead will never forget: his former coach telling him he was proud.

“He said he was proud of me, and we both said ‘culture’. That’s something that was ingrained in me for four years there.” At the University of Houston, that word is not just a slogan...