"The one guy that stands out the most that people don't really know of and doesn't get the notoriety is Jae’Sean Tate... He had good size, he can play multiple positions on both ends of the floor. He's an exciting player that I think everybody will enjoy watching."

“I just passed the point where more than my half my life has been consumed by basketball than wasn’t,” Poneman said recently.

There aren’t too many 25-year-old rookies in the NBA. Nor are there many people who have had to overcome as much adversity as Jae’Sean Tate. “A lot of people don’t know that part of my life because I’m always smiling … but it took a lot for me to get that way.”

It wasn’t a Twitter notification or a phone call that broke the news to Tyrell Terry. Nor was it his agent who knew before the pick was made.

Six weeks after Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category-4 storm, there are entire neighborhoods in which no roof was spared from significant damage.