Shaquille O'Neal, Grant Hill inducted
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Posted By: Hija Chang on December 02, 2014 By now, the story of how longtime LSU coach Dale Brown discovered Shaquille O'Neal has been told many times: Brown happened upon a massive 13-year-old at an army base in Germany, stayed in touch with him and eventually became like a second father. What is often forgotten is just how far fate stretched for it to happen. It wasn't a large army base -- Wildflecken was so remote that the nearest large city in what was then West Germany was several hours away. There was one gym, one commissary. Soldiers despised the high altitude and lousy weather. "For him to show up," O'Neal said, "that meant everything to me." Brown would ultimately give O'Neal the confidence he needed to attend college, something he had never dreamed possible, and make it into the NBA, back then not even a dream. So it made sense -- maybe fate intervened again -- that O'Neal and Brown would be inducted together into the College Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday night in Kansas City. Read on: http://beta.espn.go.com/mens-college-baske... If you enjoyed this article, Join HBCU CONNECT today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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