Shabazz Muhammad began to exhibit signs of Tourette syndrome at the age of six.

“He would start shaking in the middle of a game,” said Muhammad’s father, Ron Holmes. “His guy would go right around him. I thought he would never be able to play basketball. How could he when he couldn’t stand still and stop convulsing in the middle of a play?”

Half of children affected with Tourette syndrome no longer feel the effects of it after the age of 18, but Muhammad still deals with the issue on occasion.

For the most part, his tics subsided around his junior year at Bishop Gorman and have been “pretty stable for the last three or four years,” according to Holmes.