Here's to Christmas

Here's a kid who has out-worked most and may just find a spot in the NBA.

What Does It Take to Make the NBA?
And does Dionte Christmas have it?
E. James Beale
City Paper
June 17, 2009

It is 4:17 on a Thursday afternoon and Dionte Christmas and I are standing underneath the northernmost basket on the main court of Temple's McGonigle Hall, talking hoops. He's just come from the final class of his senior year, and he's decked out in a blue and white button-down and dark navy slacks. The outfit covers up his newly-filled-in 6-foot-5 frame and, if it weren't for a pair of dark basketball sneakers poking out from under his business-casual clothes, you might forget the fact that, in one week, Christmas will officially be a professional athlete...

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