Lakeland Magic Hopefuls Give It a Shot at Open Tryout

ORLANDO - When he was in high school, Daniel Pressley, now 20, injured his right knee in a car accident. The injury prevented him from playing basketball, the sport he loves and starred in during his youth, through graduation.

Although he contemplated giving up the sport, family and friends encouraged him to do the opposite, reminding him of how talented he is and what the game means to him. The Pensacola resident listened to that advice and is now 100 percent healthy and back to playing the game on a regular basis.

“My brother was like, ‘no, no you have to focus on basketball, you are good at it, you have talent,’ and everyone else was telling me that,” he recalled from when he was…