Tywaun Walker and Makye Richard have been best friends since they were young kids and were prep teammates at Morgan City High School.
Now, their basketball careers will intersect again, but this time, it will be far from home.
Walker recently signed a national letter of intent to play college basketball at Northern New Mexico College in Espanola, New Mexico. Richard, who concluded his first of two seasons at Baton Rouge Community College this school year, also signed with Eagles recently.
“I couldn’t see anything better happening where we would both be happy,” Walker said. “We passed friends a longtime ago. We’re ...