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10-07-2012, 09:00 AM
Chicago -– Behind the wheel of his well-traveled 2004 silver Infinity Q35, Daniel Poneman battled with a range of emotions. Returning home from a tournament in Merrillville, Ind., one of the hundreds of schoolboy basketball tournaments he often attended to assess talent, Poneman ran through his feelings: Excitement. Incredulity. Disbelief.
As he tooled northward along Interstate 94 toward the den of his Evanston, Ill., home just a block and a half from fabled Lakeshore Drive and the turquoise waters of Lake Michigan, Poneman pondered what he’d just witnessed.
New Orleans Hornets media day As Anthony Davis embarks on his rookie season in the NBA, as the Hornets No. 1 draft pick, he continues to embody many of the 26 principles that comprise A Disciplined Life and the educational foundation he received at Perspectives Charter School.(Photo by David Grunfeld, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)


Three years earlier, Poneman, then a high school freshman, had seen Anthony Davis, 5 feet 9, about 130 pounds, playing for an eighth-grade AAU basketball team in Chicago, a wiry sixth man who wore goggles.

Having already created a website in which he tracked Illinois high school basketball recruits, Poneman was at that time branching out, organizing an eighth-grade all-star game, and he was scouting talent. The Chicago Select team had some intriguing possibilities Poneman wanted to see.

Anthony Davis wasn’t one of them.
More (http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ssf/2012/10/anthony_davis_rise_to_top_pick.html)