Some people name-drop. With Rick Barry, it’s more like a name-deluge.
It takes only a few questions for the former NBA and ABA star to recount conversations with his fellow basketball Hall of Famers, life-changing advice from a golf icon, a bond with a group of tennis greats and a recent encounter with a Heisman Trophy winner.
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But Barry’s tone reaches a special level of reverence and awe when he speaks about a star on her way up. Two years ago, he met Anna Leigh Waters.
You know, the teenage pickleball phenom.
“I told Anna Leigh, ‘You have done something that’s never, ever, ever going to happen again. There is no way that
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