Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
Ep.12 - Press Box Chronicles - Yinka Dare
Season 3, Episode 12
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24m
Today, we're diving into one of the worst draft picks of all-time, and a guy with perhaps the coolest name of all-time: Yinka Dare. It's 1991, and while driving down the side of a road in Lagos, Nigeria, a 6'10" Yinka Dare was discovered, having never played basketball before. What happened next started out as a fairytale story, but quickly ended in nightmare fashion.
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