<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>DeSagana Diop didn’t like basketball growing up in Dakar, Senegal. Soccer was his favorite sport “but I was so much bigger than everyone my age.” Now, Diop is the model for a lot of Senegalese youngsters. In 2005, he found out just much of a model. After going to the NBA Finals, Diop and Avery Johnson went home to Senegal and “like 400 kids showed up.” The country is now becoming a hoops hotbed. -netsdaily</div> Joshua Hammann - ESPN
