You know what’s really rare? It’s when you’re one of the first to understand something. In basketball terms, you could say it’s when you first know that someone special has come along.
This was kind of the idea of the movie Blue Chips: Shaquille O’Neal plays a hugely talented young big man whom Nick Nolte’s character latches onto very early.
With AAU ball now so prevalent, it doesn’t happen as often as it used to, but sometimes it still does, and former Blue Devil Austin Rivers had a front-row seat
once when he was coming up in hoops.
According to Rivers, he was at a Deron Williams camp when a slot unexpectedly opened late, and the camp invited a local kid that almost no one knew about.
The kid showed up with no frills, and the more established campers sort of looked down on him and maybe sneered. He was nothing special, just showed up in his everyday gym clothes.
As it turned out, he was something special, and he very quickly had the camp buzzing. People were amazed. He was doing things no one could believe.
He would go on to a Hall of Fame level career and setting ball-handling standards that no one else has yet met.
Who was he? A young and unknown Kyrie Irving, that’s who.
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