After learning he was going to become a Clipper last week, on the night of the NBA’s draft, point guard Jason Preston fired off three tweets in as many minutes.
“We did it!” he wrote in a post honoring his mother, Judith Sewell, who died of lung cancer when he was 15. In all-caps celebration, he called his new team a dream come true. The player who had zero college scholarship offers out of high school, and who resorted to posting his own highlight tape online to gain any exposure after a year at a prep school, then wrote a message that would soon be shared 3,000 times: “NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN, CANNOT DO.