ORLANDO – Contrasting the agony he felt nearly three months earlier – both in his damaged left knee and with his pro aspirations in tatters at the time – with the sheer joy of being a member of the Orlando Magic, Chuma Okeke considered himself to be a very lucky man on Friday.
When the 6-foot-8, 230-pound Okeke heard his name called at No. 16 in Thursday’s NBA Draft, it washed away the pain that came when his prolific college career ended prematurely because of an ACL tear in his knee.
Named by his Nigerian-born father, Chukwuma Julian Okeke’s nickname of ``Chuma’’ means ``God knows.