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...that McNabb) on fast breaks while Kevin Garnett flies downcourt to stop the play are still vivid in the minds of Second City hoops junkies, and new legends being born with new names every week, and the whole neighborhood and then some all come out to places like Brother Rice High School on Friday nights to witness each potential birth...
...quietest kids I’ve ever known,” Pat Richardson says. Richardson went through a lot of kids in over a decade coaching Brother Rice, but few as dazzling and as puzzling as Harvey, who captained the team his senior year...
Maggette has been electric, dropping 26 despite constant double teams. But right now Maggette is away from the play as Rice, down two points, desperately searches for a score and the clock flashes past 00:13. The guy with the ball right now is one of nine mere mortals on the court not named Maggette, a quiet 5’10 white kid who hasn’t called for the ball much but has come off screens effectively and gotten open looks for much of the night. Right now, however, he gets the ball and creates for himself, driving...
...didn’t stay away from the game at all. He worked a full-time job at a law firm during his hiatus, but after coming home at 6 p.m. he would eat a quick dinner and retreat to his game. Sometimes it would be alone at Brother Rice, shooting around on the floor he used to own. Other times he would participate in leagues around Chicago. The play was competitive, as the teams were stacked with once-famous or never-famous ex-college players who couldn’t abandon the game...
...them was Harvey’s brother, Ken, who had been a four-year letterman at Xavier (Ohio). Richardson describes Brother Rice players as being from “good, supportive families,” and Harvey’s support often came from the other side of a pass or a check. Ken was one of two older male Harvey boys who had played high school ball in Chicago, and Pat, four years younger and the youngest of six siblings, had grown up playing with him and watching him. Now he was doing it again...