When the 76ers were preparing for the 1995 draft, head coach and general manager John Lucas invited college stars to St. Joseph's University for private workouts, and there they found a skinny, young player against whom they were matched one-on-one.
"Is he on your team?" one player asked Lucas after his workout, which ended badly for the prospective draftee.
"No, son," Lucas said. "He's a junior in high school."
The pages that fall from the calendar form pathways that bend and twist as they flutter to the ground and land. Things are neither meant to be nor not meant to be.