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On a mission from God

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Friday, March 26, 2004

It would seem like the bedroom of any other high school hoops star. Basketball shoes strewn about the room. A game jersey left where it was dropped. Posters of Michael Jordan and Julius Erving, two gods of the hardcourt, on the wall. Seemingly, a typical room of a typical hoops junky. If not for the hand-crafted wooden cross over the bed. If not for the framed copy of the Ten Commandments that hangs beside it. If not for the crude drawing of the NBA logo with a cross affixed over the heart o ...

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