Basketball
"Some of us take the path less traveled, and that’s what happened to me."
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Basketball
"We loved it, he loved it, but it just wasn't his dream."
Baseball
"I was thinking, I’m probably not gonna get drafted. This is probably my last season of baseball…I was like, ‘This is my last chance...
Basketball
Meet the NBA player who never played a single second of high school basketball.
Football
“I didn’t want to be a gang-banger or drug dealer. It wasn’t for me. I wanted to do something for myself.”
Basketball
“It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him it was impossible. But who am I to kill someone’s dream?”
Football
413 days passed between his final college game and his first pro football game. But eight weeks later, the league folded.
Basketball
He was discovered while playing soccer at his family’s chicken stand, wearing flip flops that were clearly too small for him.
Baseball
"How do you explain .178 before I go into the service, don’t play for two years, survive Vietnam, come back here, [and in] a...
Basketball
"Every other player on the floor was on scholarship except me. No problem, I told myself. I would wait for my turn."
Stories
“My mom raised me with my head in the clouds, so I believed I could do anything I set my mind to.”
Baseball
"My physique, obviously, I wanted to be taller. I wanted to have better tools. But this is what God gave me. I never was...
Basketball
"Whenever I walk into a place with all my teammates that are 6’5”, 6’6”, I look like the ball boy. But my goal is,...