Background
Johnson was raised in Leominster,MA the son of Massachusetts schoolteachers. His father, Robert Johnson, was a star basketball player at Fitchburg State College, leading the nation in scoring at 39.1 points per game in 1964. Johnson's sister Kathleen was the starting point guard for the Columbia University women's basketball team in the early 1990s. KC is also an athlete and has run numerous marathons. He currently resides in New York, New York. In 2007-2008, he taught at Tel Aviv University in Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship.
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