It was a Friday night nine days before Christmas2011, and SanJose's GundersonHigh had just lost ugly at LosGatos: turnovers, bad shots, sloppy defense, one on one moves. Gunderson coach Mike Allen stood in the visitors' locker room, staring down at his players. At 38, Allen wasn't that far removed from his days playing pro overseas and, before that, at SanJose Christian College, a Bible school where he was an All 'America twoguard. He'd added a few pounds to his wide hipped, 6' 1" frame but st ...
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2014-08-07 18:33:04
Allen grew up in Cincinnati, Denver and Tacoma, Wash., raised by a single mother in rough neighborhoods. As a teenager he fell in with the wrong crowd before finding structure and purpose in two institutions: basketball and church. While playing open gym hoops on a visit to SanJose Christian College the summer after graduating from high school, he was pulled aside by the coach, Glen Miller, who also led missionary trips. "I could care less about your athletic ability," said Miller. "Basket ...
