BIG STEPPER

FIRST IMPRESSIONS aren’t necessarily Chet Holmgren’s strong suit. He was in third grade when he first came out for Grassroots Sizzle, the AAU program that would eventually become his home squad. Everything about that day was forgettable. If only Holmgren could actually forget it.

“I showed up to the first practice in cargo shorts,” Holmgren remembers. “I was this