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[QUOTE="SUMBA, post: 2985940, member: 913"]
Ok, this is not my story but one told to me by a co worker in the mid 1990's. The guy was a very good hoops player and got a full ride to a school in Northern NY State that was not Syracuse. After his freshman year he decided he wanted to attend SU and walk on the basketball team.

The way he told the story is that he went to the initial basketball  practice as a walk on. When the team was warming up with the 3 on two drills he got the ball in on the block and thought he was getting a lay up. However, somebody (he told me who but I cannot recall) blocked his shot from behind and the ball wound up in the first row of seats.

He tried to shake that off and was then tasked with playing defense in the same 3 on 2 drill. A certain Derrick Coleman came in on the wing and was passed the ball. My co worker saw the opportunity to impress by taking the charge.

What happened next, according to him, is that DC went airborne and all my co worker could see was the word "Converse" as it was written on DC's sneaker. DC executed a savage dunk which kept the backboard vibrating for several minutes.

My co worker said he knew than that he was out of his league. He finished that initial practice but never went back.
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