The Key
“Ask the question before you walk through the door. Because Mike didn't.”
The Excerpt Begins BelowThere is a gym in Springfield that still remembers him.
Not the building. The people inside it. The ones who were there the night his team was down five points with three seconds left and watched him do something that shouldn't have been physically possible in that amount of time.
He came down the court left handed.
Silky smooth.
The kind of athlete whose body does things that other bodies simply cannot do regardless of how hard they train or how much they want it.
Some men are built differently and you know it the moment you watch them move.
Down three now.
The other team took the ball out of bounds.
Tried to throw it inbounds.
He came out of nowhere like someone had strapped a jet propeller pack to his back and stole it.
Laid it up.
Down one.
They tried again.
Same result.
Six points in five seconds.
The gym went silent the way gyms go silent when they have just watched something that defies the category of things they expected to see that night.
That was Mike.
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