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As a young boy growing up in Tuskegee, Leonard Smith remembers where his love of the game began.

He watched his father play basketball on the courts at Abbott Park off Martin Luther King Jr. Highway, not far from the broad floodplains of Tuskegee National Forest.

The sound of feet shuffling on the concrete, grown men calling for the ball and arguing over fouls was the background music young Leonard heard as he dribbled on the sideline, waiting for the weekend warriors to take a break so he could race onto the court.