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My Brother's a Keeper

What it's like being related to the hottest name in March Madness.

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After I got to San Antonio in advance of Friday night's game against Florida State, I had to ask my brother about all the hype. While I certainly don't want to spend my time with my brother acting like a reporter, I'm genuinely curious about how all this works.

"It is what it is," Shaka says in his smiling voice. He's only focusing on his team, about to go and watch tape long into the night, as ever.

"And after the hype?"

"Life, but with a little bit less attention."

That sounds all right.

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J. M. Tyree is a writer-at-large for Film Quarterly and was a Truman Capote-Wallace Stegner Fellow in Stanford's creative writing program.

Photo 1 by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images. Photo 2 courtesy J.M. Tyree.