Thumb through the pages of Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell’s fairy-tale basketball story, and you’ll eventually find the feel-good, climactic chapter, in which the undrafted, unheralded G-Leaguer capitalizes on a 10-day contract to become an overnight phenomenon the likes of which the NBA has rarely seen.
But the 6-foot guard has never been one to cut corners, so to fully understand his winding, unpredictable journey, you need to experience all of the ups and downs, and twists and turns, that led him from being the No. 1 ranked player in the nation at age 10 to on the verge of flying 5,000 miles across the world for a chance to play professional basketball a decade later.