Maybe some things in life are preordained.
Ya know, maybe that’s what he was meant to do and who he was meant to be.
When he came in here that summer, the court presence is what got me the most, because they were trying him.
the court presence is what got me the most, because they were trying him.
He didn’t get upset, his facial expressions didn’t change, he just kept playing.
He kept playing. And he looked like a man playing with boys.
This guy was a national phenomenon.
It was the last game he was playing here.
At the end of the game, I went in the back in the locker room getting all the guys on the bus,
so I kinda walked out to the bus behind him.
And there were a whole bunch of kids standing there, and he stopped, and he signed every autograph.
He didn’t leave until he had signed for every kid. And then he got on the bus.