To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

Standing at 5'11" or 1. 80 meters Brooks played the basketball position of point guard while playing collegiately at San Joaquin Delta College and Texas Christian University before finishing his final two years at the University of California Irvine. Originally from Lathrop California Brooks is currently serving as the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association.