NBA can't ignore this small school star

NBA can't ignore this small school star

Published Aug. 6, 2009 5:30 p.m. ET

Toward the end of his senior year of high school, Mark Payne already had his dorm assignment set at the University of Colorado. Then-head coach Ricardo Patton wouldn't have been able to pick him out of a lineup, but Payne was set to try to join the Buffaloes as an anonymous walk-on, anyway.

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