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There are so many memories Adam Ross wants to share, so many stories. One, though, stands most out among them all.
It was the winter of 2010. Eighteen months earlier Ross had been introduced to a 7'0", 265-pound Brazilian kid named Fabricio Paulino de Melo. The teenager had recently enrolled in Sagemont High School in Weston, Florida, where Ross was the basketball coach. He had come to the United States, without any parents, and without knowing much English, at the behest of some coaches and agent-like figures from Brazil, who believed the NBA was part of his future, even though he had only been playing basketball for a few years.