Article in the Atlanta Sunday paper about a good Ag and a good family man.
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Hawks rookie guard both a brother and parent
Acie Law has relocated his sister, 15, with him to Atlanta
http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/2008/01/12/law_0113.html
Hawks rookie point guard Acie Law IV, made a promise to his baby sister that she would live a different life, better in some respects, than they knew before.
"Long before the draft, my plan was always to bring my little sister with me wherever I went," Acie Law said. "She went to one of the top schools in the Dallas area, but I just wanted to show her a different lifestyle. Not to take anything away from my mom or my pops, because two people couldn't have done more for their kids than my parents have for us. But there are things that Viv's never had that I knew she could see and have here, so that she would know what to strive for in life.
"And with me being in a position to make that change in her life, to be able to make sure she had the best things educationally, I had to do what was in my heart."
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The added bonus is that most of the family has been reunited. Acie and Vivian's parents, Dolores and Big Acie, moved to Atlanta last fall. It wasn't a part of the original plan, but after Dolores spent a week visiting before school started, she couldn't leave.
"When it was time for them to go back, my mom was crying, and my dad, I knew he didn't want to go," Law said. "So I told them to go back home and get everything situated and come back so we could find them a place."
Everyone pitches in
Acie, Vivian and Law's girlfriend, Tiffany Settle, share a house in southwest Atlanta, while his parents have a place near Lenox Square.
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"Acie and Vivian have always been close, extremely close," Dolores said. "Even when he was at [Texas A&M], everybody there always knew that his sister would be coming down for spring break to spend time and just see what college was like. Even then Acie was always talking about making sure Vivian saw what was out there and what she needed to be striving for.
"And honestly, we were always paycheck to paycheck, struggling a bit, and Vivian always went without, being the youngest one. So Acie told us a long time ago that if he got the opportunity, he wanted to show her another side of life."
Not the Hollywood, party-girl side of NBA life, though. Vivian insists that her big brother is much more strict than even her parents or anyone else.
The two staples include staying on the honor roll in school and no boys. To make sure there is no slippage on the latter, Acie takes his sister's cellphone at night, shuts it down and stores it in his room until the morning.
"My brother's not a loose cannon at all; he's so serious about everything," Vivian said. "He keeps me on point and makes sure that my business is done first — school, basketball and everything else — and then I can stretch out a little bit and have some fun."