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Article: SUMMER PRO LEAGUE: JOHNSON JUST GRATEFUL TO PLAY.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- July 12, 2003
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Byline: Ben Villa Staff Writer
Of all the players at this year's Summer Pro League, nobody is happier than the Memphis Grizzlies' DeMarr Johnson.
He's just happy to be alive.
Johnson, a 6-foot-9 guard out of Cincinnati who was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks with the sixth overall pick in the 2000 draft, was in a serious car crash last September and wound up breaking his vertebrae and sitting out the entire 2002-03 season.
``I'm glad to be walking, and I'm glad to be living, not just playing basketball,'' Johnson said. ``I'm totally healed, I don't think about my injury anymore, that stuff doesn't even matter anymore.''
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