He had to get to the Bradley Center, then the Bucks’ arena, for a game against the Charlotte Bobcats that night — Nov. 23, 2013. And he didn’t have a coat on because, well, he was 18 and Milwaukee is a different world than Athens. Jane Gallop, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a rabid Bucks fan (and my aunt), was in the car with her longtime partner Dick Blau, also a professor at UW-M but considerably less basketball obsessed. They were out shopping when they spotted the skinny 6-foot-11 rookie, wearing jeans and no winter jacket, sprinting. “He was not just walking or jogging. He was running,” Gallop said. “He wasn’t dressed like people who run for exercise. He was wearing jeans. I looked at him and I thought, This person doesn’t know how to dress when it’s 18 degrees.”
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