Imagine, if you will, Bob “Mr. Baseball” Uecker going from a lifetime .200 hitter to a .350 slugger with 50 homers and 150 RBI in one year. Unlikely? Improbable? Impossible? Not even in the steroids era, right? Pure fantasy. Now imagine an 18-year-old kid from Chicago’s South Side going from an obscure 6-foot-1 guard to a 6-foot-10 shot-blocking version of Bill Russell, a freshman star in one of the nation’s premier college basketball programs…
