Priorities of parents help to guide Okafor

Sunday, April 18, 2004

Though college basketball season is now over, I've wanted to mention one final note on the Player of the Year and future NBA star Emeka Okafor of the University of Connecticut. When his parents left war-ravaged Nigeria behind and headed to a better life in the United States, basketball was not on the mind of the young future star or his top cheerleader, his father.

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