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The last time I was on this floor in the Marriott Center was in 1980.

I had been selected to represent the state of Utah in a national high school basketball

tournament hosted by BYU.

This was a fabulous opportunity for me to play against some of the best high school competition

in the country.

And it was a gathering place for college scouts to come watch high school seniors play

against each other. I was excited to play but I

was also quite nervous going up against such significant competition.

Our team actually did quite well.

I clearly remember a pivotal game in the tournament.

We were playing a team from Los Angeles,

named the Los Angeles Watts Magicians. Just their

team name was intimidating. They were skilled offensively and they were very intense defensively.

Their defensive pressure was like nothing I had ever played against.

The player guarding me would position himself so we were face to face seriously just inches apart

He loved a trash talk

The pressure began to get to me as I struggled to shake my opponent even enough to touch the ball.

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