Early Life
Darrin Hancock was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama but relocated to the small community of Griffin, Georgia, south of Atlanta in Spalding County, when he was in sixth grade. Hancock suffered tragedy at a young age in 1978 when his father died after succumbing to a heart attack and thereafter was raised by his mother. As a child, he kept to himself and only picked up playing basketball in the eighth grade. Hancock credited James Martin, the Griffin High School basketball coach, as his most positive influence other than his mother. Martin was his coach and mentor in high school and frequently advised Hancock on professional and personal affairs. The young Hancock eventually came to look at Martin as a father figure and the coach later became his legal guardian.
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