Sports was always a passion for Nelson growing up. He played in the Japanese American community basketball youth leagues on FOR and VFW teams. “That was my life,” he revealed. “I was surrounded by kids that looked like me.” He also played baseball and hockey (using inline skates), a sport his father Scott loved growing up in the outskirts of Chicago.
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