TIP-OFF

Len studied the grainy black-and-white photo that accompanied the article. Jordan looked younger than his seventeen years, with a lean frame and an earnest expression that suggested he'd grown up in a world very different from the one Len knew. Where Len had learned to play basketball on courts surrounded by drug dealers and gang members, where every game was a test of will as much as skill, Jordan appeared to come from the kind of place where the biggest worry was whether the grass was cut...