FROM THE EDITOR A Young Man Transformed J.J. Redick's NBA career began as pretty ho-hum. What in the world has happened over the past few seasons as he has moved toward age 30? IT'S SOMETHING that we, here in Eastern Time, could completely miss. I'm talking about the scoring line for one NBA basketball player in one mid-January night game that took place on the West Coast while we were all asleep and the newspaper was long-since put to bed. "Redick's career-high 40 help Clippers beat Rockets in OT," read the AP headline on ESPN. go.com. It's emblematic of the steady and occasionally spectacular rise of one J.J. Redick, who, you'll remember, graduated from Kurt Rheinheimer 10 | MARCH/APRIL 2016 J.J. Redick He has become a much more effecitve player as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers. Cave Spring High in 2002, having led the Knights to a state championship with 42 points against George Wythe High of Richmond. After a four-year stay at Duke, More THEROANOKER.COMhttp://www.ESPNgo.com http://www.ESPNgo.com http://www.THEROANOKER.COM