Anonymous
Years ago

Star-to-Be Who Never Was

An interesting piece in the NY Times. Worth the read...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/sports/basketball/lenny-cooke-star-to-be-who-never-was.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=basketball

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Tassiebball  
Years ago

Very sad story.

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MikefromtheK  
Years ago

That sucks. There would be hundreds out there that have or had similiar skill levels to him and similiar stories though. Than there would be thousands and tens of thousands like the guys in Hoop Dreams who didn't really have the talent but had the ambition, yet never made it.

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