Childhood best friends reunite to push Putnam North to Class 6A girls basketball title

Standing by herself at the end of the Putnam City North bench, Jayla Constant sobbed. She wiped her eyes with her jersey, and still, the tears flowed. She bent over at the waist, and still. Rest assured, her tears were happy ones as the buzzer sounded on her team’s Class 6A girls basketball championship. Constant was thinking about winning her last high school game, about claiming another state title, about having a chance to play college basketball next. “I’m really happy,” she said, a gold medal hanging around her neck, her tears long since dried after PC North’s 62-40 victory against Muskogee. But what made her happiest? “Just being able to play with my friends,” she said. Namely, Da’Nae...