<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He's a small guy trying to play in a big man's league, a free agent trying to prove he's more valuable than a draft pick. Is Jazz hopeful Brian Chase feeling any pressure? "I've been through a lot of things growing up," he said as his hand absentmindedly swooped down to brush his upper leg, "that makes all this a piece of cake. I don't mind competing." His hand, if it had followed through on the motion it began, could have gone back to an area high on his hamstring and pushed on the bullet that remains lodged in the thick, meaty part of his flesh. The bullet, similar to the three that took down the guy next to him during a street fight when he was 14 years old, serves as a permanent reminder of the kinds of true pressure life can force on a teenager. Making it to the NBA? It's a dream, for sure, but failing to turn that dream into a reality wouldn't leave him devastated or give him an excuse to get sucked back into the dangerous world of the Washington D.C. streets he escaped from once. </div> <div align="center">Source</div>
