Adam Smith arrived at Georgia Tech this season as a homeopathic remedy to the shooter’s influenza plaguing this basketball team for years. His was a cure 20 years in the making.
He was only 3 years old when his father, an Army man stationed in Vicksburg, Miss., brought home one of those little plastic miniature hoops sets and placed it in the boy’s room. That toy rim couldn’t have been more captivating had it been made of sugar.
