Step into a pair of basketball shoes that are likely bigger than any pair you have sitting around your closet and imagine, for a moment, that you’re 18-year-old Emmanuel Okorafor.
You’ve flown across the Atlantic Ocean to play for the University of Louisville. The family, friends and culture that raised you are thousands of miles away in Lagos, Nigeria, and at the NBA Academy Africa in Senegal. And the program in the community you now call home is struggling at a historic rate under first-year head coach Kenny Payne, who has been tasked with restoring his alma mater to national prominence.
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