There's a reason New Orleans Hornets rookie Anthony Davis wears No. 23, and although he's a Chicago native, it's not the motivation you might think. When Davis was a student atChicago's Perspective CharterHigh School, he won a Black History Month trivia contest and his prize was a $10 gift card. “I gave him the card and I asked him, ‘What are you going to do with this card?' ” Jonathan Daniels, Davis' college counselor, recalled recently. “He said ‘I'm going to get LeBron James' book. I'm going to read the whole thing.' He'd have it in class with him every single day. A typical student might have said, ‘I'm going to buy a CD with it.' He did something that would add to him. LeBron James is his favorite player.”
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.