Success on a basketball court, whether it's in the NBA or on a summer circuit, is as much about what you can do as having the opportunity to do it.
Jon Greenberg thinks of the San Francisco Pro-Am Basketball League, which he founded 36 years ago, as "an opportunity league."
In truth, the same could be said of just about any summer pro-am league. Like most of its kind, Greenberg's circuit provides opportunities for fans to watch quality basketball during the summer, for young officials to learn NBA rules and, most of all, for players to hone their skills and perhaps be discovered.
Pros have long played at the San Francisco Pro-Am; the Los Angeles Lakers found Kurt Rambis there in the league's early days.
By the mid-1990s, established NBA standouts such as Jason Kidd, Gary Payton and Antonio Davis were regulars at the San Francisco Pro-Am—all on the same team no less.
Nowadays, audiences in the Bay Area often find themselves as awe-struck by the show-stopping shooting skills of a bona fide superstar such as Stephen Curry as they are by a relative unknown such as Los Angeles Lak ...
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