“Anger isn’t a strong enough word. There was definitely anger there. A lot of it. I just couldn’t understand why. Then we got the news that his fiancee was expecting a child and that brought more anger and sadness.”
Duane Holmes is talking to The Athletic, with a tinge of sadness in his voice, about how he processed his immediate feelings following the death of his best friend Jordan Sinnott in January 2020. Sinnott and fiancee Kelly Bossons had no idea she was pregnant and would become parents to a beautiful daughter.
“It was also shock and sadness. The sadness of her (Sinnott’s daughter) never going to see what a great man her dad was. I don’t want to be angry at anyone. But from speaking to his family and his fiancee, and the people really close to him, it was hard not to be angry because of what had been taken away from them. I didn’t want to be angry, but I had to be.