An NBA star's family fought for years to help their brother. Now they want to help others.

Detroit Pistons guard Duncan Robinson lost his brother to suicide following a schizophrenia diagnosis. By launching a foundation, Robinson is trying to "turn this pain into progress."

As a child, Eli Robinson liked his noodles covered in ketchup. So his younger brother Duncan did, too.

"Disgusting in hindsight," Duncan Robinson said. "But there was legitimately a three-month stretch where I tried to convince myself and others that I actually liked that, because that’s what he did. I just wanted to be him."

It was why when Eli became interested in animals, that passion became Duncan’s, too.

“Steve Irwin,” Duncan said, “was like our LeBron James.”

In grade school, their shared obsession turned toward basketball. Born 3½ years apart, the brothers overlapped one season as high school teammates near their home in New Castle, New Hampshire. As Duncan traveled an unlikely route from playing in the smallest division in the NCAA to the NBA, where he, now 31, plays for the Detroit Pistons, Eli proudly declared himself Duncan's biggest fan, said Marta Robinson Day, the oldest of the Robinsons’ three siblings.