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“ You went to school to play basketball?” they asked, sizing up my 5’11” frame.
“No, no,” I explained. “I went to school to watch basketball.
They rolled their eyes.
“Back in the spring of 2009, there was this guy named DeJuan Blair. He has no ACLs now, but we don’t talk about that. So Blair is playing against this other guy named Hasheem Thabeet. What a bust. Anyways, the two of them are fighting over a rebound, and Blair flips Thabeet over his shoulder . The crowd went wild, and I applied to Blair’s college, the University of Pittsburgh, right then and there.”
They rolled their eyes yet again.
During my time at Pitt, I crossed paths with plenty of sports stars, from Aaron Donald to Ashton Gibbs—but few were as enigmatic as big Steven Adams, the young center from New Zealand. While Pitt hoops has gone through a bit of a rough patch since my tenure in the Oakland Zoo, Steven Adams…
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