Mike Gminski ended my basketball career before it could even begin. I was in the eighth grade, going to school in my home town of Oxford, Connecticut, just having fun playing the sport with my classmates. But no matter how good we thought we were, we feared playing the team from the next town over. Gminski, from Monroe, Connecticut, would run circles around us and basically every team he played. Maybe we couldn’t predict he’d go on to be a Hall of Famer at that age, but we ... CONTINUE READING |