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Osborne ready to play some games

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What if?

Every basketball player has a story and every story has a what if or two or three. But none are quite as dramatic as those of Isiah Osborne.

What if his traveling soccer team had not shut down when he was a junior in high school?

"I always thought I would go the soccer way," he said. "But when my traveling team shut down my 11th grade year, I put my focus on basketball."

Or, what if Matt Willms had not decided to go to a basketball game that August day back in Canada?