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Earnest Lee Ross, Jr. (born January 27, 1991) is an American-Guamanian professional basketball player who last played for the Perth Wildcats of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Auburn University and the University of Missouri. ==Early life== Ross was born in the Pacific Islands county of Guam to Earnest Sr. and Toy Sue Miller Ross, both of whom were United States Navy workers at the time. Ross moved around a lot as a child, living in Guam, Hawaii and Japan before his parents split up in 1996 when Ross was five. Toy subsequently left the military after 15 years because she was working 12-hour shifts and could not spend enough time with her children. Ross then moved to Washington state with his mother and his younger brother, Jamel. His mother struggled to find work, sending her children during the summers to live in Texas and Maryland with their father, who was still traveling from base to base in the military and made enough money to support them. When Ross was eight, he moved to Chicago where the family of three first moved in with Toy's sister for a year and a half, before Toy and her sons finally got their own apartment. It was a struggle for Toy, however, as she was required to maintain multiple jobs to provide for herself and her sons. To make matters worse, they lived in a rough neighborhood and were eventually evicted from their apartment and had to move in with Toy's mother.〔 Ross and his family eventually settled down in Chicago and he and his brother attended a local school on the south side of the city. Ross always took care of his brother no matter what, and felt he had to be a role model for him. In addition to walking with him to school and cooking at just nine-years-old, Ross would force his brother to pray every morning and night. He would reassure him that their current situation was only temporary, and in order for them to get out, they had to ask God for help.〔 When Ross was 12, he and his brother moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C. to live with their father when their mother was unable to support them. She went to court and made an agreement with her ex-husband that the children would be returned after a year and a half, enough time to get back on her feet. She lived and worked by herself in Chicago and then moved to North Carolina where her two sons would soon join her and attend high school.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earnest Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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