“Olympian Cullen Jones has often been mistaken for a basketball player,” writes Natalie Davis Miller, author of Speed to Glory: The Cullen Jones Story. “He’s 6-foot-5 with an athletic build and he’s African-American. Cullen’s father Ronald was a 6-foot-4 basketball player. Needless to say he had hopes of his son becoming a hoopster as well. But it didn’t work out that way.”