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The Sixth Man

“Momma, I made it!”

According to one of his agency reps, D’Angelo Russell said exactly that when he learned he’d be on the next cover of SLAM. We’ve covered D-Lo for a minute now—his stacked high school team at Montverde, college days at Ohio State, early years with the Lakers and of course his big breakout in Brooklyn. He earned our front page with his. The contract he gets this summer will prove it, too.

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