"Trevor Booker's contributions can easily get overlooked in a regular season NBA game with structure and set plays, so a streetball exhibition probably isn't the best place for the undersized but energetic power forward to have an influence on the outcome. Booker certainly wasn't going to stand out during a game in which eyes were locked on the duel between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, the breathtaking moves of Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul, and the unexpected highlight dunks of undersized guards Eric Bledsoe and Josh Selby.

But Booker didn't decide to book a flight to Baltimore for one day — two days after Goodman League commissioner Miles Rawls called to extend an invitation — to put up big numbers. He just wanted to be back on the court again, playing against elite competition. Booker broke his right foot in March, right around the time when Flip Saunders had decided to give him some quality minutes, and his season ended prematurely. "