Adam Jardy | Buckeye Xtra AKRON — A long, steady climb has brought Malaki Branham to Ohio State. There are times, though, when he has been able to take his play up a notch. There’s a common theme to those games, and she has been supporting him since Branham started to show solid shooting form on a hoop given to him for Christmas when he was 2 years old. Her name is Luzon Branham, she’s a 66-year-old Columbus resident and she has been giving her grandson the same three-letter, two-word piece of advice since he started playing AAU basketball in third grade. “Do you, but it’s just spelled ‘Do U,’ ” she told The Dispatch from inside The LeBron James Arena at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School. “I used to tell him, it was, ‘You can’t play like everybody else. You have to do you, what’s inside you. You have…
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