Torrey Craig‘s journey to the NBA started with a hand-written letter to his mother. Then another. And another.
Between the countless hours he’d spend shooting at a makeshift basket mounted on a wooden streetlight in rural South Carolina, Craig would sit down three or four times per week and pen letters to his mom, Teresa Mays, to let her know the dream he mapped out for their future.
“I am still trying to get to the NBA and I know it’s going to be hard work, but I am going to do whatever it takes to get there,” a 12-year-old Craig wrote in 2003 to his mom, who was incarcerated at the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institution about 400 miles away on drug charges.