The first game introduction of his senior season didn’t go exactly how Nick Holmes had pictured it — not even close. Ideally, he would be suited up with the starting five and ready to lead coach Danny Fisher’s new-look Overland boys basketball team on the path towards a potential third straight Class 5A state championship. But when Holmes was introduced in front of a pumped up “O-Town” crowd on Dec. 1 for the Trailblazers’ 2016-17 opener against Regis Jesuit, he proudly wore his white No. 1 jersey, knowing he would spend the entire game — and season — on the bench for reasons totally out of his control.
