When Amir Abdur-Rahim arrived at Kennesaw State in the spring of 2019, he was aware the program had history. Sure, it didn't come at the Division I level, but it was still a program with a national championship in 2004.
Yet when he walked into the team's home arena four years ago, there was no evidence of it.
The team's Division II national championship banner was in a storage closet. As soon as Abdur-Rahim found it, he went to the school's facilities people and asked that it be put up in the rafters.
"That was a great symbol of special things can be done here," Abdur-Rahim told ESPN on Monday morning.