Positivity: Mavs Rally Around Miracle Man
From Dallas, a long weekender of a story not to miss:
June 15, 2007
DALLAS (AP) — Sitting courtside with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in New Jersey, Ray Johnston watches his buddies play and tries getting lost in the action.
He can’t do it. Instead, Johnston imagines the ball back in his hands, spotting Josh Howard, throwing a lob for a dunk and getting a nod of appreciation.
Oh, how he loved those “attaboy” moments.
Johnston never lets the memories linger for long. It’s been a couple years and way too many doses of arsenic and chemotherapy since everything happened, all of it so fast:
The scout at the Hoop-it-Up tournament. The tryout. Going from a 25-year-old loan officer with season tickets to having Steve Nash’s locker, a No. 2 jersey and being teammates with Howard and Devin Harris on the Mavericks’ summer league team.
Then a bump in a pickup game led to surgery — and a coma. All because of the leukemia no one knew he had.
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