<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Chicago --- That Daryl Dorsey is even here at the NBA's predraft camp is a victory for perseverance. Just being invited was a personal triumph for the pint-sized Dorsey, a young man who's seen more than his share of adversity in his 23 years. When the dust settled from Thursday morning's game, however, Dorsey was pleased with his performance and confident that whatever happens in the final 24 hours of the camp, scores of NBA scouts and executives will remember his name. "I've played two games, and so far it's worked out well," said Dorsey, the longest of NBA long shots whose day job is starring for the Rome Gladiators of the upstart World Basketball Association. "I'm here playing against some of the best guys in college, and I'm playing well. All you can ask for is an opportunity, and I've got that." A 6-foot, 160-pound blur and easily the fastest player here, Dorsey scored eight points and dished out four assists in his team's 88-78 victory. But his biggest score to date was surviving Baltimore's rugged streets and a family history plagued by violence, drug use and incarceration. His mother is in a North Carolina prison until 2013, Dorsey said, having been convicted on 11 different charges. His father, whom Dorsey said he wouldn't know if they stood eye-to-eye, will spend the rest of his life in a Maryland prison for murder. Dorsey spent five weeks behind bars as a 17-year-old, the same prison as his father, but later was released after it was learned that murder charges against him were false. </div> Source
