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ALL WITHIN REACH

BASKETBALL RUNS IN Dereck Lively’s blood. It just took him a while to feel the game coursing through his veins.

“At first, he didn’t even want to play sports,” his mother, Kathy Drysdale, says. A 1,000-point scorer in her college days at Penn State who briefly played professionally in Europe, Drysdale was coaching AAU ball in the Philadelphia area when Dereck was young. When she moved He said, ”

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