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Magic long-shot looks to beat odds again

Magic rookie Jimmy Gavin overcome Crohn's disease and the death of his brother to star at Winthrop.

(Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)

If a free-agent spending frenzy and Kevin Durant's shocking move West is on the NBA's center stage, then summer-league basketball is an off-Broadway show.

This is hoops on the ground floor, a talent audition made up mostly of D-League long shots and hungry dreamers like Jimmy Gavin.

Gavin is as far from the NBA and its Millionaire-A-Minute club as a player can get, facing naysayers and doubters and incalculable odds.