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INTRO

IT WAS AUGUST of 2014 and Wendell Moore was just a 12-year-old kid, but Dominic Bishop saw something special in him.

Bishop, a former player at Creighton turned trainer and coach, approached Moore during an open gym near Charlotte, NC.

“When I first met him, I asked him, ‘What’s your dream school?’ And he said, ‘Duke,’” Bishop remembers.

In that same conversation, Bishop outlined five goals

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