Touching story of Inke Dare from NYT mag.....

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Once American basketball scouts discovered Africa, it was all but inevitable they would discover Yinka Dare. He was impossible to miss. Standing nearly seven feet tall with a body that sportswriters would later describe as Adonis-like, Dare was 18 and playing for the Nigerian national team when he was spotted in Lagos in 1991 by an assistant coach from George Washington Universit...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/magazine/26DARE.html

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. I remember Yinka Dare

The Nets drafted him, like No. 11 or so in the first round of the 1993 or 1994 draft.

He didn't have much more than a great body though. No real skills to speak of.

But I still remember him.

Poor Yinka. Good Nets always die young.

First Drazen Petrovic, then Yinka. :(