Two skinny arms coming out from beneath a baggy, oversized neon-yellow practice jersey somehow managed to heave a Nike Elite basketball that seemed to be as big as he was up in the air and into the basket in the Rudy Davalos Center.
The shooter – no more than 8 or 9 years old – had maneuvered down the court of the UNM Lobos practice facility early Tuesday, through a moving scrum of controlled chaos of nine other players to score the basket. He put his team up 16-6 during one of the 5-on-5 scrimmages on Day 2 of the four-day Richard Pitino Basketball Camp.