Fab Melo was the American Dream.
An athlete so gifted with talent that despite being tucked away in an industrial city in Brazil, he was whisked away to America where he could turn that potential into profit, for him and others. Once here, his new coach shortened his name, Fabricio Paulino de Melo, to Fab Melo. He did so in order to make it more palatable for American brains. However, the way it intrinsically-linked him to another basketball prodigy was the lasting effect.
Even before he arrived at Sagemont School in Florida, the college basketball buzzards circled.