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Tony Bradley's patience and hard work has the Utah Jazz center playing his best basketball

When Tony Bradley was in the eighth grade, his father took him to a basketball game a few hours away from their home in central Florida. The teenaged hoops junkie marveled as he watched Derrick Favors, DeMarcus Cousins and some of the other top high school prospects in the country play, and he made a goal for himself. Bradley was going to be a McDonald’s All-American, too. So his father put a hoop in their backyard, where Bradley would mimic the moves of players he watched on YouTube and dominate his friends in pickup games. He did this for hours and hours until he himself was suiting up as a McDonald’s All-American.