Frank Knight spotted the crowd around the tall, skinny boy with the big head before he noticed Oscar Frayer himself.
Frayer was a sixth grader attending Knight’s basketball camp, but even at that young age, he radiated magnetism. “Everybody wanted to be with him on his team or a part of whatever he was doing,” said Knight, the boys’ basketball coach at Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of Oakland.
Frayer’s charisma held its power through middle school and high school, all the way to Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, where he quickly became a star player and led the men’s basketball team to its first N.