As Mike Rosario and his Rutgers teammates flew off to Spain last month, Rosario’s mind flashed to the guys on the street back in his hometown of Jersey City.
They never would have believed it.
Those guys never would have imagined that one of their own would be taking off for a worldwide basketball tour that would take him to Spain, the Canary Islands, Puerto Rico, France and New Zealand over the span of two months.
“I thought about the guys from the neighborhood who thought that I was too little and I would never make it to where I’m at now,” Rosario, a 6-foot-3 freshman shooting guard, said by phone from Puerto Rico. “And that’s what gave me motivation. That’s what makes me work harder. That’s why I work so hard at everything I do.”
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