<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DETROIT ? A big woman once lived in this small house on the city's tough west side. Jessie Mae Carter ? all 6-foot-3, 270 pounds of her ? was best known for her oversized traits: her frame, her laugh and her talent in the kitchen that produced scents that could tempt the entire neighborhood. "You'd walk by that house and smell it and even if you weren't hungry, you'd get hungry," said Wanda Nelson, who lived around the corner. "Oooooh, could that woman cook." In that house, out of that kitchen, Jessie Mae raised children and grandchildren ? including one who became famous. And on every possible occasion she'd entertain her extended family too. The entire clan would pack the place for her chicken and ribs, her cakes and pies, her hugs and smiles; generations of Jessie Mae's brood ? including one who became infamous. It was there that two young cousins first talked about how they were both going to make it big, make a name for themselves, make it out of Detroit and into one of those rich suburbs to the north where the auto execs live. One, a grandson, everyone could see coming. He was all Jessie Mae, so big (growing to 6-foot-8, 300 pounds) and so gregarious that even as Robert Traylor went on to become a star at the University of Michigan and the sixth pick in the 1998 NBA Draft he was still best known for his care-free attitude, girth and colorful nickname ? "Tractor." His cousin, Quasand Lewis, wasn't blessed with those physical gifts. At 6-foot, 205 pounds and six years older than Traylor, he was going to have to get out of Detroit another way, the hard way. But even early on at those family gatherings, relatives say, everyone saw the toughness, street smarts and determination that made big things, in a different way, possible for him, too.</div> Source Oh well.
Did you guys read more of the article? <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Quasand Lewis needed to launder drug money," Murphy said. "Robert Traylor helped him launder (nearly $4 million) of it."</div>
<div class="quote_poster">durvasa Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">That was a terribly written article. Too much exposition.</div> I know, but the information is notable. The opening of the article is too long.
That's a typical Dan Wetzel article. He does good research and finds interesting stories, but his writing is terrible.
Good ridance if you ask me. He was a talentless big man, much like collins. Got in because of his size, not his talent.
