Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
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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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