Editor’s note: This story was revised to clarify Calvin Mattos’ potential compensation with the Hawaii Hammerheads.
This will be the 18th winter on earth for Calvin Mattos, but in at least one respect, it will be a stretch of time like none he can ever recall.
Mattos is in a tight circle of the most talented basketball players to emerge from the Big Island, yet with a Division II university literally across the street from Waiakea High School, where he graduated last spring, and a problematic minor league professional team supposedly interested in him, there will be no basketball for the 5-foot-10 guard with a high basketball IQ.