Huskies Look to Future and Just Down the Street, Offer Young Crawford

Originally posted on Washington Huskies on SI
By Dan Raley | Last updated Jun 10, 2025 12:06 PM ET

His dad Jamal Crawford didn't play for the hometown University of Washington basketball team, instead choosing Michigan briefly before a long NBA career, but he always seemed to lament that decision.

He missed out on a chance to play on the college with his closest friend, Will Conroy.

Maybe their sons will get it right.

On Monday, Danny Sprinkle's UW staff extended a scholarship offer to JJ Crawford, a sleek 6-foot-1 shooting guard, coming out of eighth grade and a Class of 2029 member set to enter his father's alma mater, Rainier Beach High.

Young Conroy, a 6-foot point guard similarly from the Class of 2029, now lives and plays in Southern California because his father, Will, is an assistant coach for USC.

Blessed to receive an offer from the university of Washington #agtg pic.twitter.com/gRcSbU8o46
— JJ Crawford (@JJ1Crawford) June 10, 2025

Jamal Crawford has given back to Seattle in a lot of ways, hosting the CrawsOver Pro Am each summer that involves NBA and amateur talent and financially supporting a new Rainier Beach gym that carries his name. Now he has basketball talent in the family that appears to have plenty of potential

At this stage, his son seems gifted enough and confident enough to play at a high level someday.

"I can shoot, finish," JJ told a podcaster. "I can shoot the dime, too. I'm energetic."

At his age, Jamal Crawford was living in Los Angeles after his parents got divorced and similarly trying to make his way into big-time basketball. Clyde Crawford, his father and JJ's grandfather, played briefly at Oregon, nine games during the 1970-71 season.

Jamal moved to Seattle after he was traumatized when a close friend was shot and killed in front of him while they waited to catch a bus.

JJ Crawford, however, has had a safe, protected and basketball-centric childhood while growing up with a famous dad.

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