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LOCKLASIANS 1:1

You are not in competition with your Peers.

You are in competition with your Past!!!

Charles Oakley Told a Gym Full of Kids They Were Soft and Challenged Anyone to a One-on-One. A 17-Year-Old Ben Wallace Raised His Hand. Oakley Busted His Lip. Wallace Busted His Nose. Wallace Won. Oakley Made One Phone Call and Changed His Life.

Charles Oakley sat down an entire basketball camp and told every kid in the room they were soft and not working hard enough.

Then he asked if anyone wanted to play one-on-one.

Nobody moved. Except Ben Wallace.

Seventeen years old. No college offers. No real path to anything.

"Oakley sat us all down and told us that we were soft and weren't working hard enough. Then he asked if anyone wanted to play one-on-one, and I volunteered. He hit me in the chest with the ball and said, 'Let's go.' We played in front of the whole camp. He busted my lip. I busted his nose."

Then someone asked Wallace who won.

"I did. And he wasn't shooting no jumpers over me — especially when I was 17. I got his shot."

Charles Oakley was a ten-year NBA veteran at the time. One of the most feared enforcers in the league.

He got a broken nose instead.

Oakley was so impressed he made a phone call to a friend in Cleveland. That friend came down to the camp to watch Wallace play. That phone call became a community college scholarship. That scholarship became Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech became an undrafted long shot. The long shot became four Defensive Player of the Year awards, one championship, and one of the greatest defensive centers the NBA has ever seen.

Ben Wallace had no options before that one-on-one.

Charles Oakley handed him one with a bloody nose and a phone call.