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For Thomas, home is where the hoop is

By Chris Broussard
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

This story appears in the September 7 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Rob Thomas shouldn't be here. He shouldn't be running full-court -- foiling one defender with a deft crossover and another with a wickedly awkward, no-look, over-the-shoulder layup, in a summer scrimmage at St. John's. Any number of places would be a more logical destination than a college campus, his college campus. Like the graveyard, because at 11 he was sleeping on park benches and in subway stations, fighting off ol ...

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