Ken Durrett: The Great Dream Dies Hard, 1978

[This is a story as old as the NBA. A young player rises to the top of the college game. He’s inundated in awards and acclaim. The pros want him—badly—and the good, seven-figure life awaits him at the end of the rainbow. All that remains to be determined is whether his will be a Hall of Fame career, denominated in NBA championship rings and all-star tro…