Not receiving the best grades at school , his mother once pulled him off the basketball team , and he took a job at an air - conditioning and refrigeration shop .
With his mother being an unmarried teenager , Robinson rarely saw his father .
Not receiving the best grades at school , Robinson teenager mother once pulled him off the basketball team , and he took a job at an air - conditioning and refrigeration shop .
With his mother being an unmarried teenager , Robinson rarely saw his father .