Article: EA SPORTS ROUNDBALL CLASSIC Cerasoli's a basketball prodigy West Aurora star has loved the game since he was 3

No one is going to confuse Justin Cerasoli for Pablo Picasso or Ludwig van Beethoven anytime soon, but what he does on the basketball court is similar in a sense, his father Paul Cerasoli said.

When Justin left Providence-St. Mel, a private school in Chicago, for West Aurora after his sophomore year, controversy arose.

If there were a student who excelled at violin or piano and made a move where their skill could be cultivated, there would be no problems," Paul Cerasoli said. My feeling with Justin was basketball was that skill, as long as he didn't suffer academically. People think it's different if it's fine arts than athletics, but to me it isn't. This is what he loves to do."

Justin has ...

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