Few basketball players see the court quite like Azurá Stevens, but many younger siblings can identify with her lifelong plight in games of one-on-one against an older sibling. No matter how much she grew or her skills developed, her older sister stayed one step ahead of her with that maddening back-you-down, pump-fake craftiness that seems a birthright of those born first.
"To this day she still can't beat me," noted Da'Shena Stevens, a former All-Big East forward and current assistant coach at St. John's who is six years older and 5 inches shorter than her half-sister. "But when she started blocking my shot, that's when I said, 'Uh oh, I might have a problem here.