DeMar DeRozan was the headliner and only active NBA player at the 1:15 p.m. game on Saturday at Drew League -- but former Rockets and Clippers guard Cuttino Mobley was the entire story.
Mobley scored 37 points for Go H.A.M. (whose logo oddly resembles the Piggly Wiggly, if the pig had a basketball in its mouth). He beat defenders with his crossover, mercilessly posted up smaller defenders for easy buckets, drained rainbow 3s, hit ridiculous leaners, went right with a vicious drive and-1, pulled the chair out on his man to force a turnover, swatted the ball away on a one-on-one break, flew in to the basket area and followed a DeRozan miss, thread the needle in traffic to his big man, then iced the game with a big shot inside of two minutes.
The PA announcer at Washington Park's gym offers a running commentary of each game. As he said over the mic, "Get a professional to do the job!" On the far side of the gym, an old-timer squawked, "They took his ass out of the nursing home and look at this!"
We caught up with Mobley after the game to discuss his three-year quest to return to the NBA.
Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN
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