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Belyeu spotted Moon at middle school in Goodwater when "he was 6-3 and could dunk the ball." Moon started his 9th-grade season at Coosa Central on the junior varsity team, Belyeu said, "but I couldn't keep him down."
Moon made the leap to starter and then to star. Belyeu still remembers two of Moon's dunks. Against Dadeville, the coach swears, he took off from the free-throw line, jumped over a defender and flushed it.
Against LaFayette, on the final play of a game already won, the coach's son tossed a lob to the top of the square on the backboard, a foot above the rim. Moon snatched it with one hand and slammed it.
"Michael Jordan ain't got nothing on him as far as dunks," Belyeu said. "He loves the highlights."
"He used to ride his basketball around in the car," his mom said. "Somebody stole the car. He said he missed the ball more than he did the car."
True story, Moon said: "It was my ball."
They could take his ball and his car. They could cut him, refuse to pay him, refuse to play him or even give him a chance.
They couldn't steal his dream.
