Franny is at it again... From myth to MVP, The Dream came to full life in Houston "HOUSTON -- From George Washington and the cherry tree to Betsy Ross and the flag to Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox, Americans love their myths. Texans just like them bigger. So perhaps it was only natural that a tale stretching across an ocean from Lagos, Nigeria to the Lone Star State should acquire more than just a bit of ... embellishment. A rim-rattling babe in swaddling clothes was not delivered by taxi one day on coach Guy V. Lewis' doorstep at the University of Houston. A teenager in a dashiki and sandals with no coat did not get off a plane on a cold afternoon in New York, shiver and decide that he could not handle the frigid temperature and then re-board the next flight to a warmer climate along the Gulf Coast. A leaping, smiling kid who had played organized ball for only three months lacing up the first pair of correctly fitting sneakers in his life and then taking over and thoroughly dominating a scrimmage of veteran college players? Oh, yes. That last one is true..." the rest at: http://www.nba.com/2013/news/02/15/...star-game-houston/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt6d
