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Article: CHOOSING A PATH; They're both teenagers, both black, both male. They attend the same school and live on the same street. Both love to play basketball. But after that the similarities fade for Deandre Riser and Preston McDade-Davis. Fifty years after Brown vs. Board of Education, Preston is seizing his opportunity. Deandre isn't.(NEWS)(SERIES: Fifty years after Brown vs. Board of Education)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 11, 2004
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Byline: Steve Brandt; Staff Writer
Last of three parts
If only basketball and life were as easy as working the PlayStation console buttons that Deandre Riser manipulates. His street basketball players deke faster than the eye follows, hang for semi-infinite periods over the hoop.
"I can do all this except dunk," he announces as his players double-dutch and fro fake, do the honey dip, shimmie-sham and back-to-the-lab. "I'll be dunking this summer, though. I can grab the rim."
Deandre's face is less than a foot from the monitor. He is wearing white Nikes, a Portland Trail Blazers jersey over a white T-shirt that drapes almost to his ...
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