It was an unusually hot day in the middle of June in Los Angeles where the New York Nighthawks were moments away from challenging the Lagos in a winner-take-all seventh game for the Professional Basketball League Championship and the player wearing jersey number 21 was the primary reason they were there. A rising league superstar forsaken and banished to the league's dungeon eight years earlier with a seemingly hopeless future in basketball, he had chosen to take his life's most sacred dream and the talent in which he had invested more of his heart than anything and, in return for a deeper...