Rick Adelman remembers drafting a raw, inexperienced 18-year-oldfrom Alabama in 2001 while he was coaching the SacramentoKings.Adelman wasn’t sure what to do with Gerald Wallace.“He played one year of college and he pretty much played zonehis whole career,” said Adelman, now coach of the Houston Rockets.“He just ran and dunked.”On Thursday, a little less than nine years later, Wallaceboarded a plane for Dallas as the first All-Star in CharlotteBobcats history. It’s the culmination of a rocky road from unhappycollege kid to Sacramento benchwarmer to expansion draft pick to aplayer who has finally combined his freakish athletic ability witha well-rounded game.And if averaging 18.8 points and 10.9 rebounds with anoverflowing collection of acrobatic, above-the-rim plays isn’tenough, his current coach doesn’t think the 6-foot-7 small forwardhas reached his potential.“He reminds me every day I watch him that he has so much moreto improve on,” Bobcats coach Larry Brown said. “And that’s not aknock on where he is. He’s made the All-Star team, so obviouslypeople have recognized that.”Growing up in Childersburg, Ala., population 4,579, Wallace wasthe can’t-miss star. He earned national player of the year awardsin high school, was a McDonald’s All-American and was expected tobecome a state hero down the road at… Read full this story
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